/lit/ - Literature

File: 212 KB, 1200x1200, kant.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google]

Anonymous Fri Sep 27 08:17:45 2019 No.13893070 [Reply] [Original]

What is the best secondary source book about Kant to read as an intro to his ideas?
I want to read him, but I know he has the reputation of being the most un-readable philosopher and writes like an autist.
>inb4 Just read the Critique bro

>>	Anonymous Fri Sep 27 08:20:05 2019 No.13893078 >>13893070 If someone writes like a pseud, nothing they write is worth reading.

>>	Anonymous Fri Sep 27 08:27:09 2019 No.13893097 >>13893078 True. But nearly every single book on philosophy post-Kant mentions him, and I don't feel like going to Wikipedia every time they do, so I want to at least attempt to understand his ideas.

>>	Anonymous Fri Sep 27 08:27:13 2019 No.13893098 >>13893070 >he has the reputation of being the most un-readable philosopher https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/hegel/works/ph/phac.htm Not at all

>>	Anonymous Fri Sep 27 08:31:04 2019 No.13893107 >>13893070 What's with everyone saying he's unreadable? He pretty readable(at least in german). Also, read fichte if you want an intro to kant.

Anonymous Fri Sep 27 08:32:53 2019 No.13893113

deleuze's little book on kant goes over kants whole project. its only around 90 pages i think? and it's one of the least deleuzean deleuze books so its very good as an intro to kant and not deleuze's kant

the sections on kant from terry pinkards german philosophy 1760-1860 are also fantastic if you want a bit more detail

kant is not too hard once you get into the swing of things though I think, the early parts of the critique especially are very very clear. i think the later parts get messier to read because the ideas themselves are much messier (style is the physiognomy of the mind, they say)

>>	Anonymous Fri Sep 27 08:34:36 2019 No.13893119 >>13893098 Hegel at least had the common decency to break up his work into bite size chunks. Kant just threw mile long walls of text at you.

>>	Anonymous Fri Sep 27 08:44:11 2019 No.13893143 >>13893113 The Deleuze book looks exactly like what I want. Thanks bud

Anonymous Fri Sep 27 08:56:15 2019 No.13893167

>Not reading Kant in the light of awareness of his possible limitations gained by reading Quine and Kripke

Also, he wrote the Prolegomena to Any Future Metaphysics That Will Be Able to Present Itself as a Science for a reason. That's a great place to start.

>>	Anonymous Fri Sep 27 09:00:14 2019 No.13893170 British political philosopher Roger Scruton wrote an introductory book to Kant in the eighties as a part of an Oxford Press series called 'Very Short Introductions'.

>>	Anonymous Fri Sep 27 09:38:03 2019 No.13893263 >>13893070 Schopenhauer wrote the most lucid introduction to Kant that I've ever seen. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Critique_of_the_Kantian_Philosophy

>>	Anonymous Fri Sep 27 10:20:47 2019 No.13893377 Adorno's Kant lectures are supposed to be very good

Advanced search
Text to find
Subject [?]Search by post subject. Leave empty for any.
Username [?]Search for user name. Leave empty for any user name.
Tripcode [?]Search for tripcode. Leave empty for any.
Email [?]Search by email. Leave empty for any.
Filename [?]Search by image filename. Leave empty for any.
From Date [?]Enter what date to start searching from. Format is YYYY-MM-DD
To Date [?]Enter what date to start searching until. Format is YYYY-MM-DD
Image hash
Search in	All Posts OPs Only
Deleted posts	Show all posts Show only deleted posts Only show non-deleted posts
Internal posts	Show all posts Show only internal posts Show only archived posts
Order	New posts first Old posts first
Capcode	All Posts Only by Users Only by Mods Only by Admins Only by Developers
Results	Posts Threads
Action	[ Simple ]