Book Review: Cambridge Companion to Kant’s Critique of Pure Reason

The Cambridge Companion to Kant’s Critique of Pure Reason (CCCPR) is the latest installment in a Companion seriesdevoted to a single philosophical text rather than a philosopher. Like the Companions to Locke’s Essay, Hobbes’ Leviathan, and Spinoza’s Ethics, this volume collects essays by leading scholars on many of the central topics of the work in question. The CCCPR consists of an introduction (which looks at the development of the Critique during the silent decade and provides an overview of its aims) and 17 essays arranged under three headings: the background, the arguments, and the impact of Kant’s first Critique. Obviously, a brief review such as this cannot consider each of these essays in detail, nor would commenting on a handful of essays provide much of an understanding of the quality of the entire volume. In what follows I will provide a brief summary of each chapter and limit myself to critical comments on the volume’s main sections.

via Paul Guyer (ed.) – The Cambridge Companion to Kant’s Critique of Pure Reason – Reviewed by Corey W. Dyck, University of Western Ontario – Philosophical Reviews – University of Notre Dame.