Kemp Smith, then McCosh Professor of Philosophy at Princeton, opens by admitting that Kant’s Critique of Pure Reason is more obscure than even a metaphysical treatise has any right to be. He then works through it in order, from the two prefaces and the Transcendental Aesthetic to the Analytic and Dialectic, tracing the book’s layers of composition and weighing what Kant meant by appearance, reality and experience.
Published in 1918 by the scholar who later made the standard English translation of the Critique, it remains a serious reader’s companion to Kant. Download the free EPUB.