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Gary Banham, Dennis Schulting and Nigel Helms (eds), The Continuum Companion to Kant London and New York: Continuum International Publishing, 2012 Pp. xiv+394 ISBN 9781441112576 (hbk), US $190.00

content into what he (Kant) takes to be merely formal (and thereby a priori and necessary and universal) philosophical claims. The last chapter itself is dedicated to one such instance: Hegel’s critique of Kant’s solution to the Antinomies. Given Sedgwick’s keen clarifying eye and talent for making obscure and implausible-sounding claims of Hegel’s transparent and plausible, this chapter was a bit of a disappointment, as Sedgwick rests content with Hegel’s claim that Kant overlooks the possibility that the contradictions generated by the Antinomies are not mistakes of human reason, but instead reveal that ‘everything real contains in itself contradictory determinations’. One would have hoped for a more robust interpretation of Hegel’s objections than: Kant ‘presupposes’ that two contrary propositions cannot both be true. Then again, the general form of this line of response is unsurprising insofar as Sedgwick’s Hegel’s main line of attack on the Critical system is that it neglects the possibility that human reason is itself one of ‘nature’s products’ and its representations are reflections of this very nature. In closing it is worth reiterating that the overall clarity and plausibility that Sedgwick brings to the roots, structure and nature of Hegel’s critiques of Kant here are going to prove a boon to anyone working in this area.