Kant's 'Critique of Pure Reason': A Reader's Guide » (New Edition)

Kant's Critique of Pure Reason is arguably the most important work of philosophy of the last two centuries. It is a classic text that is encountered by virtually every student of philosophy. As such, it is a very important and exciting, yet notoriously challenging, piece of philosophical writing. James Luchte's Reader's Guide offers guidance on: Philosophical and historical context, Key themes, Reading the text, Reception and influence, Further reading.

About the Author:
James Luchte is Lecturer in European Philosophy at the University of Wales, Lampeter, UK

Preface     ix
Note on the Text     xi
Context     1
Kant Chronology and Biography     1
Between the Revolutions: The Age of Criticism and Enlightenment     6
Overview of Kant's Other Major Works     10
Overview of Themes     22
Overview     22
Background of the Text     27
Reading the Text     46
Introduction     46
Transcendental Aesthetic     47
Transcendental Logic     51
Imagination, Synthesis and the Third Basic Faculty of the Soul     56
Transcendental Deduction     62
Transcendental Judgment: Judgment and Schematism     84
The Principles of Pure Understanding     90
Blindnesses: The Status of Imagination in the First Critique     96
Phenomena and Noumena     98
Transcendental Dialectic     103
Paralogisms of Pure Reason     110
The Antinomy of Pure Reason     118
The Ideal of Pure Reason     135
Transcendental Doctrine of Method     147
Epilogue: the Critique of Pure Reason     155
Reception and Influence     157
The Rationalists     157
The 'Pantheism Controversy'     158
The German Idealist Movement     161
Kant and Schopenhauer     166
Neo-Kantianism     167
The Continental/Analytic Divide     171
Notes     175
Guide to Further Reading     179
Contents of the Critique of Pure Reason with A & B Locations     183
Index     189