Kant and the Claims of Knowledge (Cambridge Paperback Library)

Cambridge, MA: Cambridge University Press, 1987. Paperback. Very Good-/None. Cambridge Paperback Library Very nice white softcover with blue titling on front and spine; spine and upper page edges are lightly toned. Spine is uncreased, and binding is tight. Text is unmarked. Corners are not sharp but not bad. Adhesive residue to UPC on back cover. 8vo. BOOK INFO: 'This book offers a radically new account of the development and structure of the central arguments of Kant's Critique of Pure Reason: the defense of the objective validity of such categories as substance, causation, and independent existence. Paul Guyer makes far more extensive use than any other commentator of historical materials from the years leading up to the publication of the Critique and surrounding its revision, and he shows that the work which has come down to us is the result of some striking and only partially resolved theoretical tensions.... This book thus provides a detailed study of the grounds which motivated Kant to realism as well as to idealism, presenting a picture of Kant as a more torn and also more profound philosopher than we have come to accept in recent decades.' -from the back cover. Includes endnotes, index of passages cited and general index. Kant, Immanuel, 1724-1804, Knowledge, Theory of