Kant and the Fate of Autonomy: Problems in the Appropriation of the Critical PhilosophyIt has been argued that Kant's all consuming efforts to place autonomy at the center of philosophy has had, in the long run, the unintended effect of leading to the widespread discrediting of philosophy and of undermining the notion of autonomy itself. The result of this Copernican revolution has seemed to many commentators the de centering, if not the self destruction, of the autonomous self. Ameriks challenges the presumptions that dominate popular