The Cambridge Companion to Kant's Critique of Pure Reason

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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. Frontmatter Introduction Part I The Background to the Critique 1 Kant’s Copernican Turn and the Rationalist Tradition 2 Kant, the Empiricists, and the Enterprise of Deduction Part II The Arguments of the Critique 3 The Introduction to the Critique: Framing the Question 4 The Transcendental Aesthetic 5 The Deduction of the Categories: The Metaphysical and Transcendental Deductions 6 The System of Principles 7 The Refutation of Idealism and the Distinction between Phenomena and Noumena 8 The Ideas of Pure Reason 9 The Paralogisms of Pure Reason 10 The Antinomies of Pure Reason 11 The Ideal of Pure Reason 12 The Appendix to the Dialectic and the Canon of Pure Reason: The Positive Role of Reason 13 The Transcendental Doctrine of Method Part III The Impact of the Critique 14 The Reception of the Critique of Pure Reason in German Idealism 15 The “Transcendental Method”: On the Reception of the Critique of Pure Reason in Neo-Kantianism 16 The Critique of Pure Reason and Continental Philosophy: Heidegger’s Interpretation of Transcendental Imagination 17 Kant’s Critique of Pure Reason and Analytic Philosophy Bibliography Index