Kant's Critique of Pure Reason

Kant's Critique of Pure Reason Background Source Materials

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Publisher's Synopsis

This 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.

Book information

ISBN: 9780521787017
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Imprint: Cambridge University Press
Pub date:
DEWEY: 121
DEWEY edition: 22
Language: English
Number of pages: 350
Weight: 572g
Height: 228mm
Width: 152mm
Spine width: 26mm