The Cambridge Companion to Kant's Critique of Pure Reason

The first collective commentary in English on Kant's landmark 1871 publication.

Paul Guyer (Edited by)

9780521883863, Cambridge University Press

Hardback, published 14 June 2010

476 pages
23.1 x 15.5 x 3.3 cm, 0.76 kg

'… an excellent resource for any student of Kant. Classes centered on Kant's theoretical philosophy need but only two required texts: the Critique and this Companion. The isomorphic structure of the Companion renders it a superb supplement to the Critique, and I strongly recommend reading them in tandem. As such, the Companion provides a ready and useful tool for obtaining a substantial understanding of Kant's critical philosophy.' Alexander Bozzo, Kant-Studien

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.

Part I. The Background to the Critique: 1. Kant's Copernican turn and the rationalist tradition Desmond Hogan
2. Kant, the empiricists, and the enterprise of deduction Kenneth P. Winkler
Part II. The Arguments of the Critique: 3. The introduction to the Critique: framing the question R. Lanier Anderson
4. The Transcendental Aesthetic Lisa Shabel
5. The deduction of categories: the Metaphysical and Transcendental Deductions Paul Guyer
6. The system of principles Eric Watkins
7. The refutation of idealism and the distinction between phenomena and noumena Dina Edmundts
8. The ideas of pure reason Michael Rohlf
9. The paralogisms of pure reason Julian Wuerth
10. The antinomies of pure reason Allen Wood
11. The ideal of pure reason Michelle Grier
12. The appendix to the dialectic and the canon of pure reason: the positive role of reason Frederick Rauscher
13. The Transcendental Doctrine of Method A. W. Moore
Part III. The Impact of the Critique: 14. The reception of the Critique of Pure Reason in German Idealism Rolf-Peter Horstmann
15. The 'Transcendental Method': on the reception of the Critique of Pure Reason in neo-Kantianism Konstantin Pollok
16. The Critique of Pure Reason and continental philosophy: Heidegger's interpretation of transcendental imagination Daniel Dahlstrom
17. The Critique of Pure Reason and analytic philosophy Kenneth R. Westphal.

Subject Areas: History of ideas [JFCX], History of Western philosophy [HPC]