With a refreshing blend of historical scholarship and philosophical insight, this new book by Catalina González Quintero--an outstanding Latin American philosopher--is bound to become an obligatory reference point for those studying Kant and modern philosophy. From Prussian Anti-Skeptics and Pascal's 'terrifying wonder',,to the rationality of animals and the reception of Cicero's De Officiis by Garve and Kant; an invigorating plethora of topics and authors is here articulated into a systematic whole that may be described as a veritable challenge to the received canon. This volume underscores the truth that good philosophy is good history of philosophy, and that good historiography of philosophy is simply good philosophy.

Efraín Lazos, National Autonomous University of Mexico, Mexico

This book is an important contribution to the historical and contextual understanding of Kant's critical philosophy. In addition to placing Kant's metaphysics, ethics, and aesthetics in the context of (ancient and) modern philosophical debates, Gonzalez calls attention to the historiographical methods that historians of philosophy use to frame Kant's contributions to modern philosophy and the ways they have shaped the reception of the critical philosophy.

J. Colin McQuillan, St. Mary's University, USA