A Commentary to Kant's 'Critique of Pure Reason'

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A Commentary to Kant's 'Critique of Pure Reason'

by Norman Kemp Smith

EN·~26 hours·38 chapters

Chapters

38 total

Every attempt has been made to replicate the original as printed.

0:17

A COMMENTARY TO K A N T’S ‘C R I T I Q U E O F P U R E R E A S O N’

0:23

PREFACE

6:09

ABBREVIATIONS

0:15

INTRODUCTION - I. TEXTUAL

16:35

II. HISTORICAL

19:04

III. GENERAL

1:11:20

A COMMENTARY TO KANT’S “CRITIQUE OF PURE REASON”

4:53

MOTTO

4:56

PREFACE TO THE FIRST EDITION

21:02

Description

This volume offers a careful guide to Immanuel Kant’s famously challenging Critique of Pure Reason. The author points out that the text’s complexity stems not only from Kant’s dense style but also from its piecemeal composition over several years, and he unpacks those layers for the modern listener. Drawing on recently published excerpts from Kant’s own notes, the commentary blends clear exposition with thoughtful criticism, keeping the central philosophical questions in focus.

The scholar behind the work combines decades of academic experience with a genuine respect for Kant’s project, acknowledging both the historic context of the early twentieth‑century publication and the ongoing relevance of the disputes Kant raised. Readers will find balanced discussions of competing interpretations, especially the often‑overlooked German perspectives, while being guided away from mere personal opinion. Even amid the turbulence of its wartime release, the book aims to make Kant’s ideas a steady intellectual refuge.

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Language

en

Duration

~26 hours (1554K characters)

Publisher of text edition

Project Gutenberg

Credits

Produced by Meredith Bach, lizardcry, Chuck Greif and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive/American Libraries.)

Release date

Aug 27, 2013

Rights

Public domain in the USA.

About the author

Norman Kemp Smith

Norman Kemp Smith

1872–1958

Best remembered for the classic English translation of Kant’s Critique of Pure Reason, this Scottish philosopher helped generations of readers approach some of the hardest books in modern thought. His writing on Kant, Hume, and Descartes made him one of the most respected philosophical scholars of his time.

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