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by Erich Przywara (Author)
In Kant Today: A Survey, Erich Przywara explores the enduring impact of the tensions inherent in Immanuel Kant's thought on continental philosophy over nearly a century and a half. Drawing parallels to the efforts at synthesis of Thomas Aquinas, Przywara presents Kant as a thinker striving to reconcile disparate currents of contemporary thought. While Aquinas fused neo-Platonic Augustinian philosophy with the neo-Aristotelianism of the Parisian Arts Faculty, Kant sought to harmonize continental idealism with the skepticism and empiricism exemplified by a British thinker like David Hume.
Aquinas's synthesis maintained coherence due to his reliance on the analogia entis. In contrast, Kant's synthesis lacked such a unifying principle, leading to the proliferation of philosophical antitheses reverberating throughout nineteenth- and early-twentieth-century Europe. Kant Today chronicles the aftermath of Kant's tumultuous synthesis and suggests that the resolution may lie in a thinker capable of uniting Augustine's fervent pursuit of God with Aquinas's distinctive epistemological equilibrium--namely, John Henry Newman.Author Biography
The German Jesuit theologian Erich Przywara (1889-1972), renowned as a key figure in Catholic theology during the first half of the twentieth century, is perhaps best known today for his engagements with Karl Barth on the analogy of being. He served as a mentor to both Edith Stein and Hans Urs von Balthasar. The author of a vast body of work encompassing hundreds of publications, Przywara's seminal text Analogia Entis: Metaphysics: Original Structure and Universal Rhythm is available in English translation.
