{"product_id":"kants-critique-of-pure-reason-background-source-materials-paperback-9780521787017","title":"Kant's Critique of Pure Reason; Background Source Materials (Paperback) 9780521787017","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eKant's Critique of Pure Reason\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eBackground Source Materials\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eProvides English translations of texts that form the essential background to Kant's Critique of Pure Reason.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eEric Watkins (Edited and translated by)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9780521787017, Cambridge University Press\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePaperback, published 24 August 2009\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e424 pages\u003cbr\u003e22.7 x 15.2 x 2.7 cm, 0.57 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\"...The work as a whole reads and flows smoothly--an accomplishment... Footnotes provide direction as to how the works relate to particular sections of the Critique of Pure Reason. This unique and important collection will help anyone struggling to understand one of modern philosophy's most important and notoriously difficult texts... it will be most useful for graduate students and faculty... Highly recommended...\"   \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eM Meola, The College of New Jersey, Choice\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eThis volume provides 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.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e1. Christian Wolff: rational thoughts on God, the world and the soul of human beings\u003cbr\u003e also all things in general (1720)\u003cbr\u003e 2. Martin Knutzen: system of causes (1735)\u003cbr\u003e philosophical treatise on the immaterial nature of the soul (1744)\u003cbr\u003e 3. Alexander Baumgarten: metaphysics (1739)\u003cbr\u003e  4. Christian August Crusius: sketch of the necessary truths of reason (1745)\u003cbr\u003e 5. Leonhard Euler: letters to a German princess (1760–1762)\u003cbr\u003e 6. Johann Heinrich Lambert: treatise on the criterion of truth (1761)\u003cbr\u003e new organon (1764)\u003cbr\u003e 7. Marcus Herz: first letter (1770)\u003cbr\u003e second letter (1771)\u003cbr\u003e third letter (1771)\u003cbr\u003e observations from speculative philosophy (1771)\u003cbr\u003e fourth letter (1772)\u003cbr\u003e fifth letter (1776)\u003cbr\u003e  8. Johann August Eberhard: universal theory of thinking and sensing (1776)\u003cbr\u003e 9. Johann Nicolaus Tetens: philosophical essays on human nature and its development (1777).\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eSubject Areas: History of ideas [\u003ca title=\"See our other books on History of ideas\" href=\"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/search?q=%22History%20of%20ideas%20%5BJFCX%5D%22\"\u003eJFCX\u003c\/a\u003e], History of Western philosophy [\u003ca title=\"See our other books on History of Western philosophy\" href=\"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/search?q=%22History%20of%20Western%20philosophy%20%5BHPC%5D%22\"\u003eHPC\u003c\/a\u003e]\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Cambridge University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46002396004632,"sku":"9780521787017","price":27.79,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0730\/2037\/5320\/products\/9780521787017i_150bfa35-35c7-4006-94de-2e352c6de08a.jpg?v=1691367924","url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/kants-critique-of-pure-reason-background-source-materials-paperback-9780521787017","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}