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Introduction to Monique David-Menard on Kant and Madness
- Hypatia
- Indiana University Press
- Volume 15, Number 4, Fall 2000
- pp. 77-81
- 10.1353/hyp.2000.0068
- Article
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Ross examines the relation between thought and madness within the practical and theoretical wings of Kant's critical philosophy. She argues that the notion of critique is formulated as a guard against the tendency of thought to madness. She locates the significance of David-Ménard's essay on Kant's pre-critical works in the idea that Kant's own tendency to madness functions in these early works as a motivational principle for the mature, critical system.