Like Werner Pluhar's distinguished translation of Critique of Judgment (Hackett Publishing Co., 1987), this
new rendering of Critique of Pure Reason reflects the elegant achievement of a master translator. This richly
annotated volume offers translations of the complete texts of both the First (A) and Second (B) editions, as well
as Kant's own notes. Extensive editorial notes by Werner Pluhar and James Ellington supply explanatory and terminological
comments, translations of Latin and other foreign expressions, variant readings, cross-references to other passages
in the text and in other writings of Kant, and references to secondary works. An extensive bibliography, glossary,
and detailed index are included.
Patricia Kitcher's illuminating Introduction provides a roadmap to Kant's abstract and complex argumentation by
firmly locating his view in the context of eighteenth-century -- and current -- attempts to understand the nature
of the thinking mind and its ability to comprehend the physical universe.