Abstract

Reinhard Löw, a young German philosopher who has written on the natural sciences and life, offers a critical exposition of Kant’s philosophy of organism that seeks at once to view the philosopher’s thinking in a new light and to contribute to present-day philosophy of organism in particular and nature in general. Löw offers his own historical and theoretical development of the issues and draws upon the insights of present-day thinkers on life, such as Jonas and Uexküll. Rejecting a causal-mechanical Erklären in favor of a Verstehen of nature deriving from "the ends of life," Löw puts forward the concept of a Leib-Apriori within the broader notion of a psychophysical subjectivity as ground of a new teleological thinking.