Kant's Analytic - Softcover

Bennett, Jonathan

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0521093899 ISBN 13: 9780521093897

Publisher: Cambridge University Press, 1966

Synopsis

'Mr Bennett, as was to be expected, has written a first-rate book on Kant's Analytic. It is vivid, entertaining, and extremely instructive. It will be found of absorbing interest both by those who already know the Critique and by those - if there are any such - who have a developed interest in philosophy, yet no direct acquaintance with Kant. These last it will surely drive to the text and, as surely, will drive them to approach it in a truly philosophical spirit. Bennett's Kant is not a giant immersed, or frozen, in time. He is a great contemporary - a little out of touch, admittedly, with recent developments in mathematics and physics - but one with whom we can all argue, against him, at his side, or obliquely to him. And so Bennett does argue, continuously, fiercely, and fruitfully; and summons to join in the argument, at appropriate moments, those older contemporaries, Locke, Leibniz, Berkeley, and Hume, and those younger contemporaries, Wittgenstein, Ryle, Ayler, Quine, Quinton, Warnock, and others. This is splendid, and a necessary corrective to that extraordinary isolation in which Kant tends to be islanded, partly indeed, by his own unique qualities, but partly by oceans of the wrong kind of respect. Bennett, continuously engaging his great antagonist, shows the right kind.'

About this title

Book Description

This volume is a study of the first half of Kant's Critique of Pure Reason, the Analytic. Jonathan Bennett analyses, discusses and criticizes Kant's arguments, considering them in a philosophical context that ranges over the work of many other thinkers from Locke, Leibniz and Hume to Wittgenstein and Quine.

About the Author

Jonathan Bennett is Emeritus Professor of Philosophy at Syracuse University. He has published extensively on early modern philosophy, ethics, metaphysics and the philosophy of language.

Edition details

• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Publication date: 1966
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0521093899
• ISBN 13: 9780521093897
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 270