Kant's Critique of Pure Reason (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780521781626)

This volume offers English translations of texts that form the essential background to Kant's Critique of Pure Reason. Presenting the projects of Kant's predecessors and contemporaries in eighteenth-century Germany, it enables readers to understand the positions that Kant might have identified with "pure reason," the criticisms of pure reason that had developed prior to Kant's, and alternative attempts at synthesizing empiricist elements within a rationalist framework. The volume contains chapters on Christian Wolff, Martin Knutzen, Alexander Baumgarten, Christian Crusius, Leonhard Euler, Johann Lambert, Marcus Herz, Johann Eberhard, and Johann Tetens. Each chapter includes a brief introduction that provides succinct biographical and bibliographical information on these authors, a concise account of their projects, and information on the importance of these projects to Kant's first Critique. Extensive references to the first Critique, brought together in a concordance, highlight the potential relevance of each text.

Author: Eric Watkins
ISBN-10: 0521781620
ISBN-13: 9780521781626
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Language: English
Published: 08/24/2009
Pages: 424
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.50lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.10w x 1.20d

Review Citation(s):
Choice 03/01/2010