Kant's 'Critique of Pure Reason': An Introduction

by Jill Vance Buroker

• ISBN13: 9780521853156
• ISBN10: 052185315X
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2006-10-23
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Summary

In this new introductory textbook to Kant's Critique of Pure Reason, Jill Vance Buroker explains the role of this first Critique in Kant's Critical project and offers a line-by-line reading of the major arguments in the text. She situates Kant's views in relation both to his predecessors and to contemporary debates, explaining his Critical philosophy as a response to the failure of rationalism and the challenge of skepticism. Paying special attention to Kant's notoriously difficult vocabulary, she explains the strengths and weaknesses of his arguments, while leaving the final assessment up to the reader. Intended to be read alongside the Critique (also published by Cambridge University Press as part of The Cambridge Edition of the Works of Immanuel Kant in Translation), this guide is accessible to readers with little background in the history of philosophy, but should also be a valuable resource for more advanced students.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	viii
List of abbreviations	ix
1 Introduction to the critical project	1	(13)
2 The Prefaces and the Introduction	14	(22)
3 The Transcendental Aesthetic	36	(37)
4 The Metaphysical Deduction: identifying categories	73	(30)
5 The Transcendental Deduction of the categories	103	(33)
6 The Schematism and the Analytic of Principles I	136	(27)
7 The Analytic of Principles II	163	(38)
8 Transcendental illusion I: rational psychology	201	(25)
9 Transcendental illusion II: rational cosmology	226	(38)
10 Transcendental illusion III: rational theology	264	(20)
11 Reason and the critical philosophy	284	(21)
Conclusion: Kant's transcendental idealism	305	(5)
Works cited	310	(7)
Index	317