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1vy0123
Ago 7, 2013, 8:27 am

About two hundred of six hundred pages in

Norman Kemp Smith's
A commentary to Kant's 'Critique of pure reason'

should I give up?
Is there a better book to understand Kant in detail?

2March-Hare
Ago 7, 2013, 6:12 pm

It's been awhile since I read anything on Kant, but if you are not afraid of detail you can check out Guyer's Kant and the Claims of Knowledge and Allison's Kant's Transcendental Idealism. If I am remembering correctly, the Guyer is a genetic account that starts with some of the pre-critical writings. Another commentary on the critique is Bird's The Revolutionary Kant. I only read the introduction but I think he was positioning himself in contrast to Guyer.

I also remember Walsh's Kant's Criticism of Metaphysics and Longuenesse's Kant and the Capacity to Judge being useful. Walsh is shorter and might not be a bad place to start. Guyer also wrote the volume on Kant in the Routledge Philosophers. Maybe another place to start.

Oh, just remembered Cassirer's Kant's Life and Thought. It's older and not heavy on the "life". It's more of a summary of his major works from a here is what he was trying to do angle. Maybe useful for orientation.

Good Luck!

3vy0123
Ago 9, 2013, 2:43 am

Thanks. I'll see if I can find them.

4galacticus
Ago 9, 2013, 7:20 am

Kant's theory of knowledge : An Introduction to the Critique of Pure Reason by Justus Hartnack is the absolute best introductory work because he tells you what Kant is doing in the Critique and nothing else. I almost gave up on Kant until I read Hartnack. At 152 pages and $14.74 at Amazon it is heard to beat. I also have Allison, Guyer and Walsh (which I have read some of each) but still recommend Hartnack as the beginning point.

5vy0123
Ago 10, 2013, 10:55 am

pp. 167–183 Chapter 12 on Rationalism in Wakeman's History and Will covers Kant briefly.

6vy0123
Ago 18, 2013, 2:44 am

If I have to order the three books I've read with reflections on Kant, they are:-
  1. Wakeman's History and Will
  2. Heidegger's History of the Concept of Time
    • What is a Thing?

7varielle
Set 16, 2013, 9:45 am

For you people who are passionate about Kant, an argument in Russia over his philosophy ends in a shooting. http://www.salon.com/2013/09/16/russian_man_shot_in_quarrel_over_the_philosphy_o...

8theoria
Set 16, 2013, 9:50 am

Ideas don't kill people. People kill people.

9varielle
Set 16, 2013, 9:54 am

Or just wound them a little.

10vy0123
Set 16, 2013, 10:04 am

It is not as funny as two male friends who are not homo shooting each other's butt with an air pistol and surprisingly not feeling any pain they do it again and again until eventually they arrive at the hospital to get the pellets out.

11LolaWalser
Set 16, 2013, 10:10 am

Men.

12theoria
Set 16, 2013, 10:12 am

Can't spell noumenon without men.

13LolaWalser
Set 16, 2013, 10:13 am

Or mental.

14theoria
Set 16, 2013, 10:14 am

Touché!

15March-Hare
Set 16, 2013, 10:20 am

Someone want to take a crack at expressing the shooting case as a Kantian maxim?

16AsYouKnow_Bob
Set 16, 2013, 11:28 pm

From the AP story: It was not clear which of Kant’s ideas may have triggered the violence.

This is going to bother me.

17vy0123
Set 17, 2013, 1:25 am

18matthewmason
Ott 22, 2013, 10:09 am

> 16

I would really like to know myself; perhaps one of his refutations in the Critique? Cosmological could get heated. But then again, it could have been anything, really.

19carusmm
Mag 19, 2016, 5:12 am

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20biodiplomacy
Giu 6, 2017, 1:01 pm

One of the best books on Kant is P F Strawson's "Bounds of Sense: Essay on Kant's `Cruitique of Pure Reason`(1975). Also good is Roger Scruton's "Kant - A Very Short Introduction" (Oxford UP)

21Ian19774
Set 2, 2017, 9:51 am

I received a Ph.D under Henry Allison, writing on Kant on perception. #2's recommendations are excellent. Persons are adding Rae Langton's book to this list. Strawson, Guyer, and Langton are broadly in the same camp, interpreting Kant according to the "two worlds" view: there is a world of appearances and a world of things in themselves. Bird, Allison, and Longuenesse interpret Kant (more accurately and usefully in my view) according to the "two aspect" view: the same thing may be regarded as it appears or as it is in itself.

Using the former reading one tends to be fairly critical of Kant's project. Using the latter one can be more sympathetic and find it more helpful as a corrective for contemporary work.