Kant's 'Critique of Pure Reason': A Reader's Guide (Reader's Guides) - Softcover

Luchte, James

Softcover

ISBN 10: 082649322X ISBN 13: 9780826493224

Publisher: Continuum, 2007

Synopsis

Kant’s Critique of Pure Reason: A Reader's Guide offers a detailed reading of Kant’s magnum opus from the perspective of Continental philosophy, its history and its contemporary questions.

It provides a contextual history of Kant’s work and personal biography, together with a philosophical placement in the history of modern Continental philosophy.

The work undertakes a page by page interpretation and commentary of the entire work, and provides original research on the role of the imagination in Kant’s philosophy.

The work closes with a mapping of the influences of Kant upon subsequent philosophers and philosophical movements, including an account of the Continental/Analytic divide.

About this title

About the Author:

James Luchte is Visiting Professor of Philosophy at the Shanghai University of Finance and Economics, School of the Humanities, China. His scholarly publications, all published by Bloomsbury, include Mortal Thought: Hölderlin and Philosophy (forthcoming, 2016), Early Greek Thought: Before the Dawn (2011), The Peacock and the Buffalo: The Poetry of Nietzsche (translator, 2010), Pythagoras and the Doctrine of Transmigration: Wandering Souls (2009), Heidegger's Early Philosophy: The Phenomenology of Ecstatic Temporality (2008), Nietzsche's Thus Spoke Zarathustra: Before Sunrise (Editor, 2008) and Kant's Critique of Pure Reason (2007).

About this edition

• Publisher: Continuum
• Publication date: 2007
• ISBN 10: 082649322X
• ISBN 13: 9780826493224
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 204