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Title: Kant: A Very Short Introduction (Very Short Introductions) by Roger Scruton ISBN: 0-19-280199-6 Publisher: Oxford University Press Pub. Date: 01 November, 2001 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $9.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 5 (6 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Succinct Treatment
Comment: Scruton is able to pull off a brief but highly enlightening introduction of Kant. For those who find the perusal of the unabridged "Critique" a folly lacking in pure reason, this pocket sized gem seems the perfect answer. The size is rather deceptive when it comes to the density of matter it contains... It will definitely take focussed reading and a good deal of time to do justice to this book. Personally, I feel I myself haven't done enough of justice to this compact, loaded book.
Rating: 5
Summary: Oddly terrific- who got Scruton to do this?
Comment: I don't know who foisted off the job of introducing Kant to the intellectual masses, but the could not have chosen better. My teeth hurt when I think about introducing Kant to neophytes. I still don't know how he did it, because I can't explain Kant to anyone without having them instantly MEGO (my eyes glaze over) and run crying to thre corner of the room.
There is a lot that could be called contentious in this book (too much to go into) but that isn't a bad point about any book on Kant- there are no uncontentious books on Kant except biographies. All told, what I disagree with Scruton on is overshadowed by the mass of things he got right or even better than I have (no mean feat).
It is assured Scruton's interpretations of Kant will become mainstream simply because he is the only man alive to make immediately intelligable sense of the man. Remember, Kant was the man HL Mencken attributed the incredibly funny comment
"Kant was the worst writer on earth before Marx. He had many ideas, and some of them quite simple, but he always managed to make them seem unintelligable. I hope he is in hell"
Rating: 5
Summary: David Wang
Comment: Scruton's book on Kant is, in my view, the best book available on Kant if the goal is to get a quick overview of the philosopher's "Critical System." This is a short and concise book and it does the impossible: summarize Kant's three critiques (of Pure Reason, of Practical Reason and of Judgment) in a pocket-sized book. And it is very readable. I generally really enjoy Scruton's writings; he is one of the few commentators who can write about philosophical matters in an understandable fashion for the common reader. This is doubly amazing since Scruton himself is a first rate philosopher...
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Title: Hegel: A Very Short Introduction (Very Short Introductions) by Peter Singer ISBN: 019280197X Publisher: Oxford University Press Pub. Date: 01 October, 2001 List Price(USD): $9.95 |
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Title: Nietzsche: A Very Short Introduction (Very Short Introductions) by Michael Tanner ISBN: 0192854143 Publisher: Oxford University Press Pub. Date: 01 January, 2001 List Price(USD): $9.95 |
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Title: Heidegger a Very Short Introduction: A Very Short Introduction (Very Short Introductions) by M. J. Inwood, Michael Inwood ISBN: 0192854100 Publisher: Oxford University Press Pub. Date: 01 May, 2002 List Price(USD): $9.95 |
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Title: Hume: A Very Short Introduction (Very Short Introductions) by A. J. Ayer, Alfred Ayer ISBN: 0192854062 Publisher: Oxford University Press Pub. Date: 01 October, 2000 List Price(USD): $9.95 |
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Title: Marx: A Very Short Introduction (Very Short Introductions) by Peter Singer ISBN: 0192854054 Publisher: Oxford University Press Pub. Date: 01 October, 2000 List Price(USD): $9.95 |
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