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Immanuel Kant's Critique of Pure Reason is both one of the most rewarding of all philosophical works, and one of the most difficult. Norman Kemp Smith's translation is immensely valuable, not simply because he rendered Kant's language into readable English, but also because his own extensive understanding of the Critique made him acutely aware of the pitfalls of translation.
The text followed is that of the second edition of 1787, and a translation is also given of all first-edition passages which in the second edition have been either altered or omitted. For this reissue of Norman Kemp Smith's classic translation, renowned Kant scholar Gary Banham has contributed a unique, extensive bibliography of secondary resources. Combined with Howard Caygill's context-setting introduction and guide to further reading, this reissue provides the definitive edition of this cornerstone of Western intellectual history.
The text followed is that of the second edition of 1787, and a translation is also given of all first-edition passages which in the second edition have been either altered or omitted. For this reissue of Norman Kemp Smith's classic translation, renowned Kant scholar Gary Banham has contributed a unique, extensive bibliography of secondary resources. Combined with Howard Caygill's context-setting introduction and guide to further reading, this reissue provides the definitive edition of this cornerstone of Western intellectual history.
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NORMAN KEMP SMITH was born in Dundee in 1872 and died in Edinburgh in 1958. He lectured at Princeton between 1906 and 1919, and between 1919 and 1945 was Professor of Logic and Metaphysics in the University of Edinburgh, UK. Amongst his books are The Philosophy of David Hume (1941), New Studies in the Philosophy of Descartes (1952) and The Credibility of Divine Existence (1967), his collected papers edited by A.J.D. Porteous, R.D. Maclennan and G.E. Davie.
HOWARD CAYGILL is Professor at Goldsmiths College, University of London, UK. His recent publications include A Kant Dictionary (Blackwells).
GARY BANHAM is Senior Lecturer in Philosophy at Manchester Metropolitan University, UK. He has published a number of books on Kant with the Scholarly and Reference Division of Palgrave.
HOWARD CAYGILL is Professor at Goldsmiths College, University of London, UK. His recent publications include A Kant Dictionary (Blackwells).
GARY BANHAM is Senior Lecturer in Philosophy at Manchester Metropolitan University, UK. He has published a number of books on Kant with the Scholarly and Reference Division of Palgrave.
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This is THE copy of the text to own and read
11 Jan 2012
Format:Hardcover
This translation of Kant's work is the standard text referred to by scholars writing commentary or analysis of the work.
This translation is written in clear and comprehensible English prose at least when you recognize that the ideas being conveyed are highly complex, highly complicate and highly abstract.
Norman Kemp Smith (1872-1958) was a Scottish philosopher who lectured at Princeton University and was Professor of Logic and Metaphysics at the University of Edinburgh. He utilized his knowledge of philosophy he brought this level of insight and knowledge to bear when he struggled to translate Kant's dense prose.
Translating this text is not merely a matter of accurately rendering and decoding one language into another, here it requires actually understanding the meaning of the words and the sentences that are being translated so as to render a comprehensible translation. You have to understand the whole book to translate any part of it.
Also, Kant is writing and re-writing this text as he works on it. Making another level of difficulty in translation. Here is brief few words by Smith from his translators introduction to this edition.
"Kant's German, even when judged by German standards, makes difficult reading. ...Many of the difficulties are due simply to his manner of writing. He crowds so much into each sentence, that he is constrained to make undue use of parentheses, particles, pronouns and genders to indicate the connections between the parts of the sentence. .... There are sentences which, to judge by their irregular structure and by the character of their constituents, must have owed their origin to the combination of passages independently written and later combined. ...he had, it would seem, in collating different statements of the same argument, inserted clauses into sentences that were by no means suited for their reception. In such cases I have not attempted to translate the sentences just as they stand. Were the irregularities retained, they would hinder, not aid, the reader in the understanding of Kant's argument. "
Smith overcame much to render this difficult work into clear but still dense English.
This the THE text to own and read if you want to delve into the depths of Kant's Critique of Pure Reason.
Good Luck.
This translation is written in clear and comprehensible English prose at least when you recognize that the ideas being conveyed are highly complex, highly complicate and highly abstract.
Norman Kemp Smith (1872-1958) was a Scottish philosopher who lectured at Princeton University and was Professor of Logic and Metaphysics at the University of Edinburgh. He utilized his knowledge of philosophy he brought this level of insight and knowledge to bear when he struggled to translate Kant's dense prose.
Translating this text is not merely a matter of accurately rendering and decoding one language into another, here it requires actually understanding the meaning of the words and the sentences that are being translated so as to render a comprehensible translation. You have to understand the whole book to translate any part of it.
Also, Kant is writing and re-writing this text as he works on it. Making another level of difficulty in translation. Here is brief few words by Smith from his translators introduction to this edition.
"Kant's German, even when judged by German standards, makes difficult reading. ...Many of the difficulties are due simply to his manner of writing. He crowds so much into each sentence, that he is constrained to make undue use of parentheses, particles, pronouns and genders to indicate the connections between the parts of the sentence. .... There are sentences which, to judge by their irregular structure and by the character of their constituents, must have owed their origin to the combination of passages independently written and later combined. ...he had, it would seem, in collating different statements of the same argument, inserted clauses into sentences that were by no means suited for their reception. In such cases I have not attempted to translate the sentences just as they stand. Were the irregularities retained, they would hinder, not aid, the reader in the understanding of Kant's argument. "
Smith overcame much to render this difficult work into clear but still dense English.
This the THE text to own and read if you want to delve into the depths of Kant's Critique of Pure Reason.
Good Luck.
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13 May 2011
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This book is a classic which I am delighted to now have included in my little library. I try to be carefully selective about the books I purchase because I only want books I am able to keep for a long time and which require effort to read and understand.
1 of 3 people found the following review helpful
Excellent Translation
13 Nov 2011
Format:Hardcover
For any student of Kant's CPR, this is the best translation. As the anecdote goes, German students of Kant often resort to Norman Kemp Smith's translation; his extensive Kant scholarship allowed him to clear up muddled passages from the original.
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