Vol. 7 — October 2026
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A Commentary to Kant's Critique of Pure Reason

Norman Kemp Smith · English

Norman Kemp Smith's A Commentary to Kant's Critique of Pure Reason, published in 1918, is a detailed expository and critical guide to Kant's central work.

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Norman Kemp Smith's A Commentary to Kant's Critique of Pure Reason, published in 1918, is a detailed expository and critical guide to Kant's central work. Kemp Smith argues that the Critique is difficult for two main reasons: its text was composed at various dates between 1772 and 1780, and Kant's own thinking contains conflicting tendencies. Making use of Kant's private papers, the commentary follows the Critique in order through the Transcendental Aesthetic, the Analytic with the deduction of the categories and the principles of understanding, the Dialectic on the paralogisms, antinomy and ideal of pure reason, and the closing Doctrine of Method.

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