Kant and Mysticism interprets Kant's early criticism of Swedenborg's mysticism as the fountainhead of the Critical philosophy. Kantian Critique revolutionizes not only traditional metaphysics, but also our understanding of mysticism: Critical mysticism is a unitive experience that impels us to lay bare all human pretensions to reason's light.

• Table of Contents
• List of Figures
• Preface
• Introduction
• I: Swedenborg’s Influence onKant’s Critical Awakening
  • 1 The Copernican Hypothesisas the Key to Kant’s Awakeningfrom Dogmatic Slumber
  • 2 The Impact of Swedenborg’s Mysticism on Kant’s Metaphysical Dreams
  • 3 Kant’s Awakening
  • 4 Kant’s Metaphysical Dream
• II: Kant’s Critical Philosophyas a Critique of Mysticism
  • 5 Does Mystical Experience Always Prompt Delirium?
  • 6 Kant’s Critique of Delirious Mysticism
  • 7 Immediate Experience of the Moral
  • 8 Key Metaphors GuidingKant’s Critical Mysticism
• III: The Opus Postumum as an Experiment in Critical Mysticism
  • 9 Can the Original (Threefold) Synthesis Be Consciously Experienced?
  • 10 The Categorical Imperativeas the Voice of God
  • 11 Matter’s Living Force as Immediate Experience of the World
  • 12 The Highest Purpose of Philosophyas Exhibiting the God–Man
• Conclusion
• Works Cited
• Index
• About the Author