Tag: Biography

Commentary

  • Kant’s Life and Thought

    - Cassirer, Ernst. Kant’s Life and Thought. James Haden (trans.), 1981.
    From the publisher: Here is the first Kant-biography in English since Paulsen’s and Cassirer’s only full-scale study of Kant’s philosophy. On a very deep level, all of Cassirer’s philosophy was based on Kant’s, and accordingly… More
  • Kant: A Very Short Introduction by Roger Scruton

    - Scruton, Roger, Kant: A Very Short Introduction, Oxford: Oxford University Press,  2001.
    Scruton provides an accessible introduction that sketches Kant’s life and offers a useful summary of many major themes of Kant’s thought.
  • Kant: A Biography

    - Kuehn, Manfred, Kant: A Biography, Cambridge University Press, 2001.
    Excerpt: “Immanuel Kant died  On February 12, 1804, at 11 AM, less than 2 months before his 80th birthday. Though he was still famous, German thinkers were engaged in trying to get “eon” his critical philosophy. He had become almost irrelevant. His… More
  • Kant

    - Wood, Allen,  Kant, London: Blackwell, 2004.
    This lucid survey takes readers on a thought-provoking tour through the life and work of Immanuel Kant. The book provides expositions of Kant’s key works, especially his Critique of Pure Reason, and represents the broad range of his philosophical… More
  • A Companion to Kant

    - Bird, Graham (ed.),  A Companion to Kant, Oxford: Blackwell, 2006.
    From the publisher: “This Companion provides an authoritative survey of the whole range of Kant’s work, giving readers an idea of its immense scope, its extraordinary achievement, and its continuing ability to generate philosophical interest.… More