This book examines the unique views of philosopher Jacob Sigismund Beck, a student of Immanuel Kant who devoted himself to an exploration of his teacher's doctrine and to showing that Kant¿s transcendental idealism is, contra to the common view, both internally consistent and is not a form of subjective idealism. In his attempt to explain away certain apparent contradictions found in Kant's system, Beck put forward a new reading of Kant¿s critical theory, a view, which came to be known as the Standpunctslehre, the Doctrine of the Standpoint. Author Lior Nitzan reconstructs, step by step, the historical development of Beck¿s doctrine. He shows how Beck's unique view is drastically different from that of his contemporaries and presents the relevance of Beck to contemporary debates about the proper interpretation of Kant¿s notion of objectivity, the refutation of idealism and the role of the thing in itself in Kant¿s transcendental idealism. In doing so, Nitzan presents a defense of Beck's radical perspective of Kant¿s theory and claims that some of Kant¿s negative responses to it may in fact be due more to the adversary academic environment at the time than to Kant¿s true, well considered, opinion. Jacob Sigismund