The Cambridge Companion to Kant's Critique of Pure Reason

by Edited by Paul Guyer

• ISBN13: 9780521710114
• ISBN10: 0521710111
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2010-06-14
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Summary

Immanuel Kant's Critique of Pure Reason, first published in 1781, is one of the landmarks of Western philosophy, a radical departure from everything that went before and an inescapable influence on all philosophy since its publication. This Companion is the first collective commentary on this work in English. The seventeen chapters have been written by an international team of scholars, including some of the best-known figures in the field as well as emerging younger talents. The first two chapters situate Kant's project against the background of continental rationalism and British empiricism, the dominant schools of early modern philosophy. Eleven chapters then expound and assess all the main arguments of the Critique. Finally, four chapters recount the enormous influence of the Critique on subsequent philosophical movements, including German Idealism and Neo-Kantianism, twentieth-century continental philosophy, and twentieth-century Anglo-American analytic philosophy. The book concludes with an extensive bibliography.

Author Biography

Paul Guyer is Professor of Philosophy and Florence R. C. Murray Professor in the Humanities at the University of Pennsylvania, where he has taught since 1982. He is the author or editor of fourteen previous books on Immanual Kant, and co-general editor of the Cambridge Edition of the Works of Immanuel Kant, in which he has co-edited and co-translated the Critique of Pure Reason, Critique of the Power of Judgment, and Notes and Fragments.

Table of Contents

Contributors	p. ix
Abbreviations	p. xiii
Introduction	p. 1
The Background to the Critique	p. 19
Kant's Copernican Turn and the Rationalist Tradition	p. 21
Kant, the Empiricists, and the Enterprise of Deduction	p. 41
The Arguments of the Critique	p. 73
The Introduction to the Critique: Framing the Question	p. 75
The Transcendental Aesthetic	p. 93
The Deduction of the Categories: The Metaphysical and Transcendental Deductions	p. 118
The System of Principles	p. 151
The Refutation of Idealism and the Distinction between Phenomena and Noumena	p. 168
The Ideas of Pure Reason	p. 190
The Paralogisms of Pure Reason	p. 210
The Antinomies of Pure Reason	p. 245
The Ideal of Pure Reason	p. 266
The Appendix to the Dialectic and the Canon of Pure Reason: The Positive Role of Reason	p. 290
The Transcendental Doctrine of Method	p. 310
The Impact of the Critique	p. 327
The Reception of the Critique of Pure Reason in German Idealism	p. 329
The ôTranscendental Methodö: On the Reception of the Critique of Pure Reason in Neo-Kantianism	p. 346
The Critique of Pure Reason and Continental Philosophy: Heidegger's Interpretation of Transcendental Imagination	p. 380
Kant's Critique of Pure Reason and Analytic Philosophy	p. 401
Bibliography	p. 431
Index	p. 455
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