What happened after Kant in Philosophy?
Many philosophical movements have been influenced by Kant’s philosophy. Consider the following examples. Absolute idealism: since we never perceive noumena, since they have no explanatory function, since they are never experienced, why do we believe in them at all? Why not get rid of them? Berkeley s subjective idealism (before Kant) does this, and the absolute idealists do this more thoroughly. They say: why suppose that the world is divided into pieces that cause our sensations at all? why not give that up entirely and suppose that only we divide the world up into pieces, so that the world in itself is not a bunch of particular things but, say, just mind. Phenomenology, hermeneutics, deconstruction: playing around in the map of the self, either at the border between world and self (phenomenology s “what appears to me?”), or within the knowing process (hermeneutics “how do I understand?”), or in the reality depicted in the map (deconstruction s frustrated “All I ever do is impose myse
