This book explores the intricate relationship between becoming an individual person and knowing oneself as such by studying Kant's distinctive account of psychological personhood. It will be of interest to scholars of the history of philosophy, as well as of philosophy of mind and psychology.

Explores the relationship between self-knowledge, individuality, and personal development by reconstructing Kant's account of personhood.

'Katharina Kraus' important book offers a careful discussion of Kant's account of the self and self-awareness that is both hermeneutically and philosophically rewarding. On her highly original reading of Kant, our self or person is not something we find, but something we must achieve. Kraus develops this deep and difficult idea with impressive ingenuity and sophistication.' Marcus Willaschek, Goethe-University Frankfurt