Where have all the categories gone? Reflections on Longuenesse's reading of Kant's transcendental deduction

This paper contains a critical analysis of the interpretation of Kant's sec ond edition version of the Transcendental Deduction offered by Beatrice Lon guenesse in her recent book: Kant and the Capacity to Judge. Though agreein g with much of Longuenesse's analysis of the logical function of judgement, I question the way in which she tends to assign them the objectifying role traditionally given to the categories. More particularly, by way of defend ing my own interpretation of the Deduction against some of her criticisms, I argue that Longuenesse fails to show how either part of the two-part proo f may be plausibly thought to have established the necessity of the categor ies (as opposed to the logical functions). Finally, I question certain aspe cts of her 'radical' interpretation of the famous footnote at B160-1, where Kant distinguishes between 'form of intuition' and 'formal intuition.'