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Publisher:
Cambridge University Press
Online publication date:
March 2021
Print publication year:
2021
Online ISBN:
9781108894869
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108894869
Subjects:
History of Philosophy, Eighteenth-Century Philosophy, Philosophy: General Interest, Philosophy
Series:
Elements in the Philosophy of Immanuel Kant
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Book description

This Element surveys the place of the Critique of Pure Reason in Kant's overall philosophical project and describes and analyzes the main arguments of the work. It also surveys the developments in Kant's thought that led to the first critique, and provides an account of the genesis of the book during the 'silent decade' of its composition in the 1770s based on Kant's handwritten notes from the period.

References

Bibliography

The literature on the Critique of Pure Reason and Kant’s philosophy as a whole is vast. The following works, all in English except for the standard German edition of Kant’s works and a recent German edition of the Critique, are just an introduction.

Texts

Kant, Immanuel. Kant’s gesammelte Schriften. Edited by the Royal Prussian, subsequently German, then Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences. 29 vols. Berlin: Georg Reimer, subsequently Walter de Gruyter & Co., 1900—. (Akademie edition)
Kant, Immanuel. Kritik der reinen Vernunft. Edited by Timmermann, Jens. Hamburg: Felix Meiner Verlag, 1998.

Volumes from The Cambridge Edition of the Works of Immanuel Kant, edited by Paul Guyer and Allen W. Wood

Kant, Immanuel. Opus Postumum. Edited and translated by Förster, Eckart and Rosen, Michael. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1992.
Kant, Immanuel. Theoretical Philosophy 1755–1770. Edited by Walford, David in collaboration with Meerbote, Ralf. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1992.
Kant, Immanuel. Critique of Pure Reason. Edited and translated by Guyer, Paul and Wood, Allen W.. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1998.
Kant, Immanuel. Correspondence. Edited and translated by Zweig, Arnulf. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1999.
Kant, Immanuel. Theoretical Philosophy after 1781. Edited by Henry, E.Allison and Heath, Peter. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2002.
Kant, Immanuel. Notes and Fragments. Edited by Guyer, Paul, translated by Curtis Bowman, Paul Guyer, and Frederick Rauscher. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2005.

Surveys of Kant’s Philosophy

Guyer, Paul. Kant. Second edition. London: Routledge, 2014.
Walker, Ralph C. S. Kant. London: Routledge, 1978.
Ward, Andrew. Kant: The Three Critiques. Cambridge: Polity, 2006.
Wood, Allen W. Kant. Oxford: Blackwell, 2005.

Biography and Background

Beck, Lewis White. Early German Philosophy: Kant and His Predecessors. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1969.
Kuehn, Manfred. Kant: A Biography. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2001.
Schönfeld, Martin. The Philosophy of the Young Kant: The Precritical Project. New York: Oxford University Press, 2000.
Watkins, Eric, ed. Kant’s Critique of Pure Reason: Background Source Materials. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2009.

Essay Collections

Altman, Matthew C., ed. The Palgrave Kant Handbook. London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2017.
Bird, Graham, ed. A Companion to Kant. Oxford: Blackwell, 2006.
Guyer, Paul, ed. The Cambridge Companion to Kant. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1992.
Guyer, Paul, ed. The Cambridge Companion to Kant and Modern Philosophy. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2006.
Guyer, Paul, ed. The Cambridge Companion to Kant’s Critique of Pure Reason. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2010.
Kitcher, Patricia, ed. Kant’s Critique of Pure Reason: Critical Essays. Lanham: Rowman & Littlefield, 1998.
O’Shea, James R., ed. Kant’s Critique of Pure Reason: A Critical Guide. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2017.

Commentaries and Monographs

Abacı, Uygar. Kant’s Revolutionary Theory of Modality. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2019.
Allison, Henry E. Kant’s Transcendental Idealism: An Interpretation and Defense. Second edition. New Haven, CT and London: Yale University Press, 2004.
Allison, Henry E. Kant’s Transcendental Deduction: An Analytical-Historical Commentary. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2015.
Ameriks, Karl. Kant’s Theory of Mind. New edition. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2000.
Anderson, R. Lanier. The Poverty of Conceptual Truth: Kant’s Analytic/Synthetic Distinction and the Limits of Metaphysics. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2015.
Bennett, Jonathan F. Kant’s Analytic. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1966.
Bennett, Jonathan F. Kant’s Dialectic. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1974.
Bird, Graham. The Revolutionary Kant: A Commentary on the Critique of Pure Reason. LaSalle, IL: Open Court, 2006.
Buroker, Jill Vance. Kant’s Critique of Pure Reason: An Introduction. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2006.
Dicker, Georges. Kant’s Theory of Knowledge: An Analytical Introduction. New York: Oxford University Press, 2004.
Friedman, Michael. Kant and the Exact Sciences. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1992.
Gardner, Sebastian. Kant and the Critique of Pure Reason. London: Routledge, 1999.
Grier, Michelle. Kant’s Doctrine of Transcendental Illusion. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2001.
Guyer, Paul. Kant and the Claims of Knowledge. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1987.
Guyer, Paul. Reason and Experience in Mendelssohn and Kant. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2020.
Höffe, Otfried. Kant’s Critique of Pure Reason: The Foundation of Modern Philosophy. Dordrecht: Springer, 2010.
Kemp Smith, Norman. A Commentary to Kant’s Critique of Pure Reason. Second edition. London: Macmillan, 1923.
Kitcher, Patricia. Kant’s Transcendental Psychology. New York: Oxford University Press, 1990.
Kitcher, Patricia. Kant’s Thinker. New York: Oxford University Press, 2012.
Longuenesse, Béatrice. Kant and the Capacity to Judge: Sensibility and Discursivity in the Transcendental Analytic of the Critique of Pure Reason. Translated by Charles T. Wolfe. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1998.
Melnick, Arthur. Kant’s Analogies of Experience. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1973.
O’Shea, James R. Kant’s Critique of Pure Reason: An Introduction and Interpretation. Durham: Acumen Publishing, 2012.
Paton, Herbert James. Kant’s Metaphysic of Experience. 2 vols. London: George Allen & Unwin, 1936.
Strawson, Peter F. The Bounds of Sense: An Essay on Kant’s Critique of Pure Reason. London: Methuen, 1966.
Tonelli, Giorgio. Kant’s Critique of Pure Reason within the Tradition of Modern Logic. Hildesheim: Georg Olms, 1994.
Van Cleve, James. Problems from Kant. New York: Oxford University Press, 1999.
Watkins, Eric. Kant and the Metaphysics of Causality. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2005.
Weldon, T. D. Kant’s Critique of Pure Reason. Second edition. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1958.
Willaschek, Marcus. Kant on the Sources of Metaphysics: The Dialectic of Pure Reason. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2018.
Wolff, Robert Paul. Kant’s Theory of Mental Activity: A Commentary on the Transcendental Analytic of the Critique of Pure Reason. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1963.

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