Immanuel Kant's Critique Of Pure Reason
Condition: SECONDHAND
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Edition: repr.,
Condition remarks:
Condition: Good. Jacket: Worn/faded - small tears; price clipped. Page Condition: Tanning and foxing. Markings: Previous owner. Binding condition: Intact.
At the heart of Western philosophy stands a work so transformative that it permanently divided the history of thought into before and after: Immanuel Kant's Critique of Pure Reason. First published in 1781, this monumental treatise confronts the most fundamental questions of human knowledge — what can we know, how do we know it, and where does reason reach its absolute limits? Kant argues that the mind is not a passive receiver of experience but an active architect of reality, imposing its own structures of space, time, and causality upon the raw data of sensation, a thesis that dismantled centuries of both rationalist and empiricist orthodoxy in a single, sweeping philosophical revolution. Norman Kemp Smith's celebrated 1929 translation remains the definitive English-language rendering of Kant's demanding prose, praised for its fidelity to the original German and its remarkable clarity in navigating the work's notoriously complex architecture of transcendental aesthetics, analytics, and dialectics. Kant's investigation into the synthetic a priori, the paralogisms of pure reason, and the antinomies of the cosmos continues to challenge, provoke, and inspire philosophers, scientists, and scholars across every discipline. For anyone who has ever asked whether human understanding has a boundary — and what might lie beyond it — this work offers not a comfortable answer, but an unforgettable confrontation with the question itself.
Author: Immanuel Kant (Translated By Norman Kemp Smith)
Format: Hardback
Published: 1963, Macmillan
Genre: Philosophy
Edition: repr.,
Condition remarks:
Condition: Good. Jacket: Worn/faded - small tears; price clipped. Page Condition: Tanning and foxing. Markings: Previous owner. Binding condition: Intact.
At the heart of Western philosophy stands a work so transformative that it permanently divided the history of thought into before and after: Immanuel Kant's Critique of Pure Reason. First published in 1781, this monumental treatise confronts the most fundamental questions of human knowledge — what can we know, how do we know it, and where does reason reach its absolute limits? Kant argues that the mind is not a passive receiver of experience but an active architect of reality, imposing its own structures of space, time, and causality upon the raw data of sensation, a thesis that dismantled centuries of both rationalist and empiricist orthodoxy in a single, sweeping philosophical revolution. Norman Kemp Smith's celebrated 1929 translation remains the definitive English-language rendering of Kant's demanding prose, praised for its fidelity to the original German and its remarkable clarity in navigating the work's notoriously complex architecture of transcendental aesthetics, analytics, and dialectics. Kant's investigation into the synthetic a priori, the paralogisms of pure reason, and the antinomies of the cosmos continues to challenge, provoke, and inspire philosophers, scientists, and scholars across every discipline. For anyone who has ever asked whether human understanding has a boundary — and what might lie beyond it — this work offers not a comfortable answer, but an unforgettable confrontation with the question itself.