Kant Between Chemistry and Alchemy
Cinnabar, ‘Now Red, Now Black’
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 21355989 |
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| Authors | Babette Babich (0000-0002-4499-0718, Fordham University Dept. of Philosophy 113 West 60th Street, 925H/916 NYC USA, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2023 |
| Volume | 114 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 796-813 |
| Publication date | 2023-11-22 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Kant-Studien (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0022-8877 • E-ISSN: 1613-1134 |
| Publisher | Walter de Gruyter GmbH (PUBLISHER • DE) |
| DOI | 10.1515/kant-2023-2042 |
| OpenAlex | W4389049441 |
| Language | EN |
This essay takes its point of departure from a post-Nietzschean reading of Kant and the limits of logic and critique. The focus is on science, particularly chemistry and alchemy via mercurial cinnabar (HgS), to this day the primary source of elemental mercury. Seeking to raise the question of science as Nietzsche names it along with the question of truth, this essay undertakes to raise the question of historiography in science, using the illustration of alchemy
Alchemy · Archaeology · Art · Cinnabar · Epistemology · Historiography · History of science · Linguistics · Literature · Mercury (programming language) · Political science · Reading (process) · Science education · Science history · Skepticism · Theology · Chemistry · Computer Science · History · Law · Nietzsche, Schopenhauer, and Hegel · Organic Chemistry · Philosophy
| Highly cited | No |
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