A Commentary to Kant's Critique of Pure Reason (Classic Reprint) - Couverture souple

Norman Kemp Smith

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1440086923 ISBN 13 : 9781440086922

Editeur : Forgotten Books, 2018

Synopsis

A Commentary to Kant’s Critique of Pure Reason explains the ideas and methods behind Kant’s great work in clear, accessible language.

This edition surveys how Kant rethinks knowledge, space and time, and the limits of human understanding, helping readers grasp the core arguments without getting lost in specialized jargon.

Drawing on the author’s detailed analysis, the commentary situates Kant’s critical method within the broader history of philosophy. It traces how Kant links experience, sensation, and the categories of thought, and how his ideas challenge older deductive systems. The text emphasizes the practical and theoretical stakes of Kant’s project, offering guidance for readers encountering complex concepts such as apperception, perception, and the distinction between appearance and thing-in-itself.

• Clear explanations of key terms like sensibility, understanding, and the categories.
• Plain discussions of the transcendental structures that shape experience.
• Guidance on how Kant treats skepticism, idealism, and the relation between mind and world.
• Context for how Kant’s critique reshapes discussions of knowledge, reality, and reason.

Ideal for students and general readers seeking a solid, readable map of Kant’s Critique and its enduring significance.

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur

Excerpt from A Commentary to Kant's Critique of Pure Reason

The Critique of Pure Reason is more obscure and difficult than even a metaphysical treatise has any right to be. The difficulties are not merely due to defects of exposition; they multiply rather than diminish upon detailed study; and, as I shall endeavour to show in this Commentary, are traceable to two main causes, the composite nature of the text, written at various dates throughout the period 1772-1780, and the conflicting tendencies of Kant's own thinking.

The Commentary is both expository and critical; and in exposition no less than in criticism I have sought to subordinate the treatment of textual questions and of minor issues to the systematic discussion of the central problems. Full use is made of the various selections from Kant's private papers that have appeared, at intervals, since the publication of his Lectures on Metaphysics in 1821. Their significance has not hitherto been generally recognised in English books upon Kant. They seem to me to be of capital importance for the right understanding of the Critique.

Some apology is perhaps required for publishing a work of this character at the present moment. It was completed, and arrangements made for its publication, shortly before the outbreak of war. The printers have, I understand, found in it a useful stop-gap to occupy them in the intervals of more pressing work; and now that the type must be released, I trust that in spite of, or even because of, the overwhelming preoccupations of the war, there may be some few readers to whom the volume may be not unwelcome. That even amidst the distractions of actual campaigning metaphysical speculation can serve as a refuge and a solace is shown by the memorable example of General Smuts.

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Présentation de l'éditeur

Critique of Pure Reason is more obscure and difficult than even a metaphysical treatise has any right to be. The rdifficulties are not merely due to defects of exposition ;they -multiply rather than diminish upon detailed study; and, as I ~shall endeavour to show in this Commentary, are traceable to two main causes, the composite nature of the text, written at various dates throughout the period 1772-1780, and the conflicting tendencies of Kant sown thinking. The Commentary is both expository and critical ;and in exposition no less than in criticism I have sought to subordinate the treatment of textual questions and of minor issues to the systematic discussion of the central problems. Full use is made of the various selections from Kant sprivate papers that have appeared, at intervals, since the publication of his Lectures on Metaphysics in 1821. Their significance has not hitherto been generally recognised in English books upon Kant. They seem to me to be of capital importance for the right understanding of the Critique. Some apology is perhaps required for publishing a work of this character at the present moment. It was completed, and arrangements made for its publication, shortly before the outbreak of war. The printers have, I understand, found in it a useful stop-gap to occupy them in the intervals of more pressing work ;and now that the type must be released, I trust that in spite of, or even because of, the overwhelming preoccupations of the war, there may be some few readers to whom the volume may be not unwelcome. That even amidst the distractions of actual campaigning metaphysical speculation can serve as a refuge and a solace is shown by the memorable example of General Smuts.
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Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Forgotten Books
• Date d'édition: 2018
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1440086923
• ISBN 13: 9781440086922
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 679
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