Of all the major philosophical works, Kant's Critique of Pure Reason is one of the most rewarding, yet one of the most difficult. Norman Kemp Smith's Commentary elucidates not only textural questions and minor issues, but also the central problems which arise, he contends, from the conflicting tendencies of Kant's own thinking. Kemp Smith's Commentary continues to be in demand with Kant scholars, and for this reissue of the classic 1923 edition, Sebastian Gardner provides a new introduction to reveal the continued value of Kemp Smith's Commentary in the contemporary context.
'It is a classic translation: easier to read than its competitors and less cluttered with superfluous notes. An ideal translation for teaching undergraduates.' - Dr Gary Banham, Manchester Metropolitan University
New Introduction by Sebastian Gardner
Introduction by Norman Kemp Smith
The Critique of Pure Reason
Preface to the First Edition
Preface to the Second Edition
The Transcendental Doctrine of Elements
The Transcendental Aesthetic
Space
Time
The Transcendental Logic
The Transcendental Analytic
The Analytic of Concepts
The Clue to Discovery of all Pure Concepts of Understanding
The Understanding
The Analytic of Principles
The Schematism of Pure Concepts of the Understanding
System of all Principles of Pure Understanding
On the Ground of the Distinction of all Objects Whatever into Phenomena and Noumena
The Transcendental Dialectic
The Concepts of Pure Reason
The Dialectical Inferences of Pure Reason
The Paralogisms of Pure Reason
The Antimony of Pure Reason
The Ideal of Pure Reason
Appendix to the Transcendental Dialectic
The Transcendental Doctrine of Methods
The Discipline of Pure Reason
The Canon of Pure Reason
The Architecture of Pure Reason
The History of Pure Reason
Index
NORMAN KEMP SMITH was born in Dundee in 1872 and died in Edinburgh in 1958. Between 1919 and 1945 he was Professor of Logic and Metaphysics at the University of Edinburgh. Among his books are New Studies in the Philosophy of Descartes, The Credibility of Divine Existence and his translation of Kant's Critique of Pure Reason.
SEBASTIAN GARDNER is lecturer in Philosophy at UCL. He is the Reviews Editor of the European Journal of Philosophy and the author of Fichte, Schelling and Early German Idealism, Kant and the 'Critique of Pure Reason' and Irrationality and the Philsophy of Psychoanalysis.