NDPR Kristi Sweet Kant on Freedom, Nature, and Judgment: The Territory of the Third Critique

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Kristi Sweet, Kant on Freedom, Nature, and Judgment: The Territory of the Third Critique, Cambridge University Press, 2023, 232pp., $32.99 (pbk) ISBN 9781009036634.

Reviewed by Lara Ostaric, Temple University

One may wonder why we had to wait for so long for a book like Kristi Sweet’s to be published. It is in the Second Introduction to the Critique of Judgment that the core idea of the book is presented, namely, that the third Critique should offer a bridge to an “incalculable gulf” (unübersehbare Kluft) (ZEKU, 5: 176) between the domains of nature and freedom.[1] “The latter”, writes Kant, “should have an influence on the former, namely the concept of freedom should make the end that is imposed by its laws real in the sensible world” (ZEKU, 5: 176). Yet, in...