The Cambridge Companion to Kant (Cambridge Companions to Philosophy)

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Potential buyers and readers should ignore the low average rating given to this book on amazon. There are a large number of companions and guides to Kant at his point. This collection of articles remains one of the very best. If you are a student, teacher, or general reader looking for a helpful overview of Kant's views on a particular subject, this volume is, in most cases, the best place to start. (I always recommend it to my students.) Schneewind's chapter on Kant's moral philosophy, for instance, is a masterpiece of the "companion/guidebook" genre. It, taken together with the chapters by Wood, Ameriks, Parsons, and Hatfield, to mention only some of the best, make this book well worth the price. Also worthwhile are Graham Bird's "A Companion to Kant" and Guyer's "Cambridge Companion to Kant and Modern Philosophy." These are great at what they do. But they are longer and the chapters tend to focus on narrower, more specialized topics. So this original "Cambridge Companion to Kant" is better for readers looking for a general overview.

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The media could not be loaded. I think the content of this companion is essential to understanding in depth what Kant was up to. Unfortunately I’ve reordered the book because of a defect. Surely this is a one off instance of manufacturing error, but every third page is completely loose. Simple flaw. Hopefully the next copy is more physically sound. The philosophy is good though.

If you're studying Kant for a college course, on your own, or as a scholar, this collection is quite excellent. Guyer is a major Kant interpreter, and so this anthology represents some of the best work in the field. I highly recommend this.Guyer's article here is excellent. And so is Schaper's on the Third Critique.I also recommend: Allison, Transcendental Idealism (for a sympathetic defense of Kant); Strawson, Bounds of Sense (critical); Bennett, K's Analytic (critical); Forster, Transcendental Deductions (Stanford UP); and Kitcher, K's CPR (Rowman/Littlefield). A current biography of Kant is: M. Kuehn, Kant (Cambridge UP, now in paperback).

Paul Guyer has done a great service to Kantian studies with his judicious editing of this anthology of essays on Kant's philosophy. By showing the balance between Kant's rationalistic background and his response to the English empiricists, the essays refute the common Anglo-American fallacy of viewing Kant as arbitrarily imposing categorical types on the objects of experience. The article on Kant's pre-critical development and philosophy is worth the price of the book alone.

Far from the promised "convenient, accessible guide" to Kant for "new readers and nonspecialists," this is merely a loose collection of papers by Anglo-American Kant scholars. While a few of the papers might interest those in that circumscribed group, this book is both useless to the unintiated and often susbstandard to those who know Kant well.