I am currently working on a book titled Kant and the Fate of Metaphysics. Here is a brief abstract:This book argues for the centrality of the notion of the unconditioned in Kant and several of his immediate successors. Specifically, it investigates how what Kant calls the Supreme Principle of Pure Reason and the notions it employs, namely the conditioned, its conditions, and the unconditioned, are crucial to determining the fate of metaphysics. It does so by showing, against prevailing views, that the Supreme Principle is true, Kant has good reason to accept it, and it provides a crucial point for understanding his criticisms of the claims of theoretical metaphysics as articulated in the Transcendental Dialectic as well as the claims that form his own practical metaphysics. It also argues that German Idealists (Reinhold, Fichte, and Schelling) as well as German Romantics (Novalis and Schleiermacher) made use of Kant’s notions of the conditioned and the unconditioned in articulating and arguing for the first principles that lie at the foundation of their own philosophies, despite the fact that their positions departed radically both from Kant’s and from one another’s. By understanding in this way the incredibly rich flourishing of philosophical thought that took place in Germany in the 1780s and 1790s, one can see that the fate of the unconditioned ended up determining nothing less than the fate of all philosophy.