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Critique of Pure Reason by Immanuel Kant [FIRST U.S. PAPERBACK PRINTING] 1965 • St. Martin's Press

Critique of Pure Reason by Immanuel Kant [FIRST U.S. PAPERBACK PRINTING] 1965 • St. Martin's Press

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Critique of Pure Reason by Immanuel Kant (Complete and Unabridged)

FIRST U.S. TRADE PAPERBACK PRINTING [1965] ST. MARTIN'S PRESS

First U.S. paperback release of the classic philosophical text infamously banned by the USSR and Roman Catholic Church.   Unabridged.

Vintage heavyweight trade paperback in very good condition.  

*Book has some mild underlining confined to the the "introduction" chapter of the book.  All subsequent chapters appear clean and unmarked. 

Cover shows shelf wear, but is otherwise clean.    Upper text block has a tan spot (that is visible at very top of title page, but no others)  Lower text block has some faint discoloration. 

Pages look and read good as new.  Clean, white and vibrant with antique shop stamp on front endpaper.

"The purpose of this critique of pure speculative reason consists in the attempt to change the old procedure of metaphysics and to bring about a complete revolution"

Kant's Critique of Pure Reason (1781) is the central text of modern philosophy. It presents a profound and challenging investigation into the nature of human reason, its knowledge and its illusions. Reason, Kant argues, is the seat of certain concepts that precede experience and make it possible, but we are not therefore entitled to draw conclusions about the natural world from these concepts. The Critique brings together the two opposing schools of rationalism, which grounds all our knowledge in reason, and empiricism, which traces all our knowledge to experience. Kant's transcendental idealism indicates a third way that goes far beyond these alternatives.
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