The Revolutionary Kant: A Commentary on the Critique of Pure Reason by Open Court

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The Revolutionary Kant: A Commentary on the Critique of Pure Reason by Open Court A masterly repudiation of the "dualism" charge against Kant
A highly readable defense of the first Critique against the traditional charge of epistemological dualism. This charge, which surfaced as early as the publication of the first edition (1781), proved massively influential not only in Kantian scholarship, but as a tacit element of the epistemologies propounded by later, analytical philosophies. Bird, founder of the Kant Society in the UK, musters a convincing case for reading the first Critique as a "revolutionary" work in precisely the sense that Kant thought of it. In terms of the Ding-an-sich, this means grasping Kant's notion that although we can "think" the thing-in-itself of any intuited object, how we "know" it (i.e., understand it) is restricted to its appearance as a phenomenon. Bird himself is quick to acknowledge that his position is hardly original with him, but he has produced a most lucid and ably argued commentary. Perhaps the best recent work on the first Critique that substantiates Bird's approach is the 2nd edition of Henry Allison's "Kant's Transcendental Idealism" (Yale 2004).
The Revolutionary Kant: A Commentary on the Critique of Pure Reason by Open Court Product Description
The Revolutionary Kant offers a new appreciation of Kant’s classic, arguing that Kant's reform of philosophy was far more radical than has been previously understood. The book examines his proposed revolutionary reform — to abandon traditional metaphysics and point philosophy in a new direction — and contends that critics have misrepresented conflicts between Kant and his predecessors. Kant, Bird argues, was not a flawed innovator but an advocate of a new philosophical project, one that began to be appreciated only in the twentieth century.