Prolegomena to Any Future Metaphysics: With Two Early Reviews of the Critique of Reason - Paperback

by Immanuel Kant (Author), Günter Zöller (Editor)

This accessible and practical edition of Kant's best introduction to his own work is designed especially for students. Assuming no prior knowledge of the Prolegomena, esteemed scholar Günter Zöller provides an extensive introduction that covers Kant's life, the origin and reception of the Prolegomena, the organization of the work, its principal arguments, and its philosophical significance. Detailed notes, a chronology, a glossary, an annotated bibliography, and two reviews of the Critique of Pure Reason--which establishes the specific intellectual background of the Prolegomena--are also included.

Author Biography

Günter Zöller is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Munich and member of the Fichte Commission of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences. He served as Vice President of the North American Kant Society between 1988 and 1994.

He has written extensively on Kant and has also has worked as an editor and translator of classical German philosophy. Books published previously include Objective Reference in Kant (1984) and Schopenhauer's Prize Essay on the Freedom of the Will (1999).