Critique of Pure Reason

by Kant, Immanuel; Pluhar, Werner S.; Kitcher, Patricia W.

• ISBN13: 9780872202573
• ISBN10: 0872202577
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1996-12-01
• Publisher: Hackett Pub Co Inc

Summary

Like Werner Pluhar's distinguished translation of Critique of Judgment (Hackett Publishing Co., 1987), this new rendering of Critique of Pure Reason reflects the elegant achievement of a master translator. This richly annotated volume offers translations of the complete texts of both the First (A) and Second (B) editions, as well as Kant's own notes. Extensive editorial notes by Werner Pluhar and James Ellington supply explanatory and terminological comments, translations of Latin and other foreign expressions, variant readings, cross-references to other passages in the text and in other writings of Kant, and references to secondary works. An extensive bibliography, glossary, and detailed index are included. Patricia Kitcher's illuminating Introduction provides a roadmap to Kant's abstract and complex argumentation by firmly locating his view in the context of eighteenth-century -- and current -- attempts to understand the nature of the thinking mind and its ability to comprehend the physical universe.

Table of Contents

Dedication	v
Translator's Preface	xvii
Introduction	xxv
Patricia Kitcher
Reading the Critique	xxv
Prefaces and Introduction: Kant's Central Problem	xxvii
Transcendental Aesthetic: The Science of Sensory Perception	xxxii
Perception	xxxii
Space, Time, and Mathematics	xxxv
Kant's Doctrines	xxxvii
The Transcendental Analytic: The Rules by Which We Think	xxxix
The Metaphysical Deduction	xxxix
The Transcendental Deduction	xlii
The Analytic of Principles	xlix
Transcendental Dialectic: The Source of Metaphysical Error	liii