(1/3) Cosa può un pensiero? Prospettive di lettura contemporanee dell’"Opus postumum" di Kant

What Can a Thought Do? Contemporary Perspectives on Kant's "Opus Postumum" Edited by Antonio Branca (University of Salerno) and Alessandra Campo (University of Urbino) First Meeting Antonio Branca (University of Salerno) The Phenomenon of Existence: Ether, Topics of Forces, and Self-Position Palazzo Serra di Cassano, April 9, 2026 From its first publication in 1936-38 to the present, Kant's "Opus Postumum" has led to a progressive rediscovery of critical transcendental philosophy, with sometimes contrasting outcomes depending on the perspectives adopted by its interpreters. Read at times as the foundation of empirical physics, at times as a return to pre-critical metaphysical structures of thought, at times as a bridge to later idealism, it has represented a veritable stumbling block for contemporary Kantforschung, which agrees on at least one point: what the older Kant is forced to do in Opus Dei is a questioning of the structure and framework of the critique of reason. What emerges is the new sense of the transcendental that originates from the return to the Aesthetics of 1781–87 and the refoundation of critical idealism.