Critique of Pure Reason: Unified Edition (with all variants from the 1781 and 1787 editions) (Hackett Classics)

Was the exact book l was looking for and with a little work was able to repair the spine. Awesome price and books pages are like new.

So far, so good. Translation is very clear and easily comprehended.

Pluhar's translation is wonderful. The extensive annotation makes the whole work perfectly clear, offering alternative translations and pointing out the technical German vocabulary (so essential to understanding Kant). The work flows beautifully, and though the material was dense, I could hardly put it down at times. If you're just starting Kant, do not start here. I'd suggest the excellent series by W.T. Jones called A History of Western Philosophy (specifically volume four). Read and reread it. Understand the basics about Kant, then, when you have the proper grounding, go on to the Critique. It will reward careful study.

The unified edition is excellent for scholars, but the footnotes aren't super visibly distinct from the main text (they're about 2pt font smaller than the main text,) and not separated by any lines. The author also mixes clarifying footnotes, footnotes about the specific German wording, footnotes about relevant standard academic papers on specific passages, footnote translations of Kant's Latin insertions, etc. with all the other footnotes. It's impossible to tell whether there's a genuinely clarifying comment to be found at the bottom of the page or whether the author just wanted you to know that Kant used Objekt at the beginning of the paragraph and Gegenstand later on, though they're both translated as "object". There are, on average, about 7 footnotes per page, and you have to glance down each time to see what kind of footnote the author inserted this time. This makes a smooth reading experience virtually impossible, but does mean that you're unlikely to find this book insufficient as a reference book. Also, about a month after buying the book, several pages started falling out. The glue no longer holds them to the spine. There's a large, ~40 page section which seems to want to fall out together currently, but only ~8 have fallen out so far. I'm giving it 4 stars and am just gonna assume that I got unlucky with the binding on my copy. It's a great/comprehensive copy, but I personally for my own sanity had to go ahead in the book and add my own pencil marks to footnotes which were actually useful comments so that I could just ignore most of the translation-related footnotes.

Mr Werner S. Pluhar has done us all non-German readers a great favor: A clear, complete (with a German-English Glossary followed by the English-German Index), fluent translation of Kant's major work. It's the one I feel to be the most enjoyable and closer to the original. Patricia Kitcher's Introduction is very helpful to any new Kant's reader. The editing and format of this edition is well designed and inviting to the eye.

Weird, splotchy printing; left a bunch of black marks all along the edges of the book. Cover looks scuffed or damaged. I bought a "New" copy.

This Critique is long, difficult, and dry; however, at the same time it is brilliant. Many who rate this book below 4 stars just simply do not have the education or intellect to understand it. I recommend studying early modern philosophy from Descartes to Hume; then, you may be able to comprehend Kant's deep thinking. To this day, I display this book proudly as a trophy, and a thought bible.

Standard book of german philosophy. It has a historic value and a contemporary relevance, because it enforces rigorous rethinking about the status of perceived objects. Time and space are, according to Kant, on the side of the perceiving subject, and not independently real. But what remains, if we remove space/time from the objects? Such considerations may twist the brain, but are quite amusing and may sharpen ones mental faculties.

Great book. Delivered in good condition.