Kant on Self-Knowledge and Self-Formation
The Nature of Inner Experience

'Katharina Kraus’ important book offers a careful discussion of Kant’s account of the self and self-awareness that is both hermeneutically and philosophically rewarding. On her highly original reading of Kant, our self or person is not something we find, but something we must achieve. Kraus develops this deep and difficult idea with impressive ingenuity and sophistication.' Marcus Willaschek, Goethe-University Frankfurt

'This account of Kant’s psychology, which Kraus establishes with great patience, analytic clarity, technical accuracy, and systematic consequence, is highly innovative and intriguing.It will certainly stir vivid debates in the years to come. Chapters 3 and 4 are particularly convincing, attesting to an excellent knowledge of the existing literature and today’s philosophical debates.' Stefanie Buchenau, Journal of the History of Philosophy

‘Scholars have provided countless studies of Kant’s theory of object cognition. Katharina Kraus has produced the first positive and comprehensive account of Kant’s theory of self-cognition. It is a signature achievement.’ Patricia Kitcher, European Journal of Philosophy

‘Kraus’s ambitious and impressively researched book is bound to generate a good deal of debate for the foreseeable future. Anyone interested, not only in Kant’s views on self-knowledge and personhood but also in Kant’s critical system as a whole, should have this book on top of their to-read list.’ Béatrice Longuenesse, Philosophical Review

‘Katharina Kraus’s new book is an impressive, wide-ranging treatment of Kant’s theory of self-consciousness and selfhood … its strength lies in the insight she displays in seeing how texts that are familiar to all students of the Critique can be read with subtlety and discernment in new and interesting ways. The account that emerges provides Kant with original answers to questions most readers (I speak of and for myself here) have not even known how to ask before reading her book … For I confess that she has turned me into a learner and an inquirer into the topics she is discussing.’ Allen Wood, Kantian Review

‘Katharina Kraus’s Kant on Self-Knowledge and Self-Formation … provides a careful and systematic investigation, along with a nuanced and innovative interpretation, of several overlapping parts of Kant’s philosophy of mind and psychology. It is successful to such a high degree that it is surely the ‘state of the art’ for all future discussion of its topics.’ Clinton Tolley, Kantian Review

‘This book deserves to become a standard reference point for any discussion of Kant’s view on the self.’ Pirachula Chulanon, Toronto Metropolitan University

‘[A] masterful work on Kant’s theoretical philosophy and an important contribution to the philosophy of mind.’ Ekin Erkan, Kant Studien