Prolegomena to Any Future Metaphysics: with two early reviews of the Critique of Reason / Edition 1

by Immanuel Kant, Günter Zöller

Overview

This accessible and practical edition of Kant's best introduction to his own work is designed especially for students. Assuming no prior knowledge of the Prolegomena, esteemed scholar Günter Zöller provides an extensive introduction that covers Kant's life, the origin and reception of the Prolegomena, the organization of the work, its principal arguments, and its philosophical significance. Detailed notes, a chronology, a glossary, an annotated bibliography, and two reviews of the Critique of Pure Reason—which establishes the specific intellectual background of the Prolegomena—are also included.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780198751519
Publisher:	Oxford University Press
Publication date:	02/26/2004
Series:	Oxford Philosophical Texts
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	264
Product dimensions:	9.18(w) x 6.26(h) x 0.54(d)

About the Author

Günter Zöller is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Munich and member of the Fichte Commission of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences. He served as Vice President of the North American Kant Society between 1988 and 1994.

He has written extensively on Kant and has also has worked as an editor and translator of classical German philosophy. Books published previously include Objective Reference in Kant (1984) and Schopenhauer's Prize Essay on the Freedom of the Will (1999).

Table of Contents

Part 1: Introductory MaterialEditors IntroductionAdvice on Further ReadingOverview of the ProlegomenaAnalysis of the ProlegomenaNote on Texts and TranslationsNotes to Part IPart 2: Prolegomena to Any Future MetaphysicsPrefacePreamble: Of What is Peculiar to All Metaphysical CognitionGeneral Question of the Prolegomena: Is Metaphysics Possible at All? General Question: How is Cognition from Pure Reason Possible? Editors Notes to Prolegomena, Preface and PreambleFirst Part of the Main Transcendental Question: How is Pure Mathematics Possible? Editors Notes to Prolegomena, First PartEditors Notes to Prolegomena, Second PartEditors Notes to Prolegomena, Third PartAppendix: Of What Can Be Done to Make Metaphysics as Science ActualEditors Notes to Prolegomena, Solution and AppendixPart 3: Supplementary TextsThe Göttingen Review of the Critique of Pure ReasonEditors Notes to the Göttingen ReviewThe Garve Review of the Critique of Pure ReasonEditors Notes to the Garve ReviewPart 4: Reference MaterialGlossary, Bibliography, Chronology, Index of Names, Index of Terms