Exposition of Kant's " Critique of Pure Reason"
By: Johann Schultz ; translated and with an introduction by James C.Morrison.
Series: Philosophica -- 47
Publisher: University of Ottawa press
Published: 1995
Place of publication: Ottawa
Language: eng
Number of pages: 216
Subjects: Kant, Immanuel, -- 1724-1804.
Work titles: Kritik der reinen Vernunft
Description: "Readers of Kant's Critique of Pure Reason (1781) did not react as favourably as expected by its author. Therefore, when Johann Schultz, Kant's colleague at the University of Konigsberg and lifelong defender of the new critical philosophy, offered to prepare a review of the Critique, Kant gratefully accepted. In the end, Schultz's proposed review became a book, published in 1784." "James C. Morrison here offers the first English version of Schultz's Erlauterungen. Both Kant's and Schultz's objective for this work was to correct misunderstandings of the Critique and offer a clear and accurate account of its basic doctrines. In the first part of his book, Schultz provides a concise outline of the basic argument of the Critique, and in the second part, he discusses the main problems it raises and its philosophical significance." "Schultz's Exposition (Erlauterungen) is supplemented by appendices including translations of Schultz's review of Kant's Inaugural Dissertation, three early reviews of the Critique (including the Gottingen Review and Christian Garve's review), and the complete correspondence between Kant and Schultz. Morrison also provides an introduction discussing the historical background to Schultz's Exposition, and a bibliography of Schultz's works."--BOOK JACKET.