num_pages: 483
description: Kant's Critique of Pure Reason is among the most important and influential of philosophical works. First published in 1781, it undertakes a critical examination of the capacity of the human intellect to answer what Kant describes as the most important of questions. After receiving charges from several critics of creating a doctrine of subjective idealism, Kant produced a second edition of the Critique of Pure Reason which, published in 1787, is the most common version available.This edition was translated by J.M.D. Meiklejohn who was, in 1855, the first to put Kant into intelligible English. It also has an introduction by A.D. Lindsay, the first Vice-Chancellor of Keele University.“In the current Easter book fair there will appear a book of mine, entitled Critique of Pure Reason [...] This book contains the result of all the varied investigations that start from the concepts we debated together under the heading mundi sensibilis and mundi intelligibilis.” — thus begins Kant’s letter to Marcus Herz from 1 May 1781 (Ak. 10:266).Kant’s own copy of this book was housed at the Staats- und Universitätsbibliothek Königsberg, before being lost in 1945. Fortunately Kant’s marginalia had already been printed at Ak. 23:17-50, as well as in Erdmann [1881]; they are also included in the Guyer/Wood translation.
language: English
title: Critique of Pure Reason
titlecomplete: Critique of Pure Reason
genres: German Literature, Classics, Psychology, Metaphysics, Science, Theory, Philosophy, 18th Century, Politics, Nonfiction
ratings_count: 34910
publisher: Everyman