Sanjay Kumar Shukla

This volume critically evaluates and maps German philosopher Immanuel Kant’s influence on twentieth-century prominent Indian philosophers. Kant, as a revolutionary philosopher, augmented the well-known Copernican Revolution in Western philosophy. His philosophy radically transformed the nature of man from being a mere spectator of the natural world and a mere subject in the moral world to an active agent in the creation of both the natural and moral worlds. His philosophy has deeply influenced the divergent philosophical traditions of modern times. Transcendental idealism and empirical realism are the hallmarks of Kant’s philosophical thought, and the former has culminated into the German idealism of J.G. Fitche, F.W.J. Schelling, and G.W.F. Hegel. He also kindled the concept of absolute idealism of T.H. Green, F.H. Bradley, Bernard Bosanquet, and J.M.E. McTaggart. Kant influenced immensely in shaping up the philosophical thoughts of Edmund Husserl, Martin Heidegger, Jean-Paul Sartre, among others. Taking a cue from different Indian philosophical systems, frontline Indian philosophers of the twentieth century such as K.C. Bhattacharyya, J.N. Mohanty, T.R.V. Murti, Daya Krishna, and others have deeply delved into the Kantian philosophical world view and have critically added value to the Kantian thought, thereby making this volume a collector’s issue