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Title: Kant's Transcendental Idealism: An Interpretation and Defense by Henry E. Allison ISBN: 0-300-03629-9 Publisher: Yale Univ Pr Pub. Date: February, 1986 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $22.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.8 (5 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: best work I have found on T.I.
Comment: I recently finished reading a handful of secondary sources on Kant's Transcendental Idealism/Critique of Pure Reason, and this was one of the most fair and most readable ones. .... While Allison could be criticized for sympathizing a bit too much with Kant, he is simply attempting to present Kant in a less idealistic light than that in which he is usually examined. While many scholars see Kant as a Berkeleian idealist who was too scared to admit his true beliefs, or who did not recognize his true beliefs, Allison takes Kant's statements rebuking Cartesian/Humean skepticism and Berkeleian idealism seriously.
Allison makes one of his most important points early on, that is, that Berkeleian idealist readings of Kant always interpret the transcendental ideality of space and time as meaning that space and time are a set of either ontological or psychological conditions for the possibility of the representation of objects, while in fact Kant only means that space and time are epistemic conditions of human knowledge. This is the basis for Kant's revolution, that objects have to be representable to be represented, meaning that they have to conform to a priori epistemic human conditions to be possibly experienced. This seems much easier to swallow than the contents of Transcendental Analytic, even though those contents have recieved so much acclaim from English scholars who write very boring books which get published only because they hold teaching positions at major overrated English univeristies. Anyhow, while critiques of Kant which represent him as an idealist and view his Transcendental Aesthetic as skeptical hogwash certainly gain some support from some of Kant's statements, these critiques are abundant and all say basically the same thing. For a fresh interpretation of Kant that takes statements Kant makes about the nature of his own philosophy seriously, and which shows the true merit in Kant's work, Allison's book gets the job done.
Rating: 5
Summary: No Straw Man Here
Comment: Henry Allison has become one of the world's best living Kant Scholars, and KTI is his best work. With Kantian epistemology becoming more and more important, not to mention controversial, many of Kant's critics have got in the habit of smashing down straw-man versions of Kant (often without even realizing it). Here however, Allison weaves together a stunning interpretation and defense of Kant's Transcendental Idealism that leaves little room for those wanting to flail away at poorer constructions. For anyone who loves Kant this is the book for you, and for those who don't this is one of the most important books you'll ever read because it really lets you know what you're up against.
Rating: 5
Summary: Essential Reading Prior to K's CPR
Comment: This text is the most sympathetic reading of Kant's CPR in English. Allison is perhaps the ablest defender of Kant in the USA. Burge once said that Allison defends Kant a bit too sympathetically--perhaps believes that K. is right. I think Allison's defensive reading is crucial in understanding Kant's Transcendental Project, or the Critical Project. If one wants a clear notion of what Kant meant by "Transcendental Idealism," this text is required reading. Allison's prose is careful, clear, and cautious. He brings light to often obscure passages of 'the Master.'
While I have the chance to plug it, I highly recommend Kuehn's biography on Kant (Cambridge UP), esp. for students new to the CPR.
Also, the N. Kemp Smith translation of K's CPR is standard in the field, but the new Guyer-Wood translation (Cambridge UP) is certainly worth checking out. Many corrections.
For an 'empirical' reading of Kant, see Strawson's Bounds of Sense. Also, his Individuals.
For excellent readings and clear interpretations of Kant, see Allison, Guyer (K and the Claims of Knowledge), Strawson (not altogether sympathetic with K's 'T.I.'), and Collins (Possible Experience/ U CAL).
On Kant and "Transcendental Arguments," see Stroud's articles (Human Knowledge/Oxford UP), A. Brueckner (articles), and D. Stern's anthology (Oxford UP).
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Title: Routledge Philosophy Guidebook to Kant and the Critique of Pure Reason (Routledge Philosophy Guidebooks) by Sebastian Gardner ISBN: 041511909X Publisher: Routledge Pub. Date: May, 1999 List Price(USD): $15.95 |
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Title: Kant and the Capacity to Judge : Sensibility and Discursivity in the Transcendental Analytic of the Critique of Pure Reason by Beatrice Longuenesse ISBN: 0691074518 Publisher: Princeton Univ Pr Pub. Date: 03 January, 2001 List Price(USD): $26.95 |
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Title: The Cambridge Companion to Kant by Paul Guyer ISBN: 0521367689 Publisher: Cambridge University Press Pub. Date: 31 January, 1992 List Price(USD): $33.00 |
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Title: Critique of Pure Reason by Immanuel Kant, Paul Guyer, Allen W. Wood ISBN: 0521657296 Publisher: Cambridge Univ Pr (Trd) Pub. Date: February, 1999 List Price(USD): $28.00 |
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Title: A Commentary to Kant's Critique of Pure Reason by Norman Kemp Smith, Sebastian Gardner ISBN: 1403915040 Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Pub. Date: 24 October, 2003 List Price(USD): $39.95 |
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