Un geografo di nome Kant

Abstract

The article aims to provide some insights into the cartographic scheme that underlies Kant’s critical philosophy. To achieve this, it begins with a brief contextualisation of Kant within the geographical revolution of the XVIII century and then moves on to analyse the inner articulation of his Physical Geography. The result is the exhibition of Kant’s presupposition of a plan, or idea (focus imaginarius), to the same construction of his philosophy. It is this idea that, through projection, makes cartographically possible the critique.