The Bounds of Sense: An Essay on Kant’s Critique of Pure Reason

by Peter Strawson, Lucy Allais (Foreword)

Peter Strawson (1919–2006) was one of the leading British philosophers of his generation and an influential figure in a golden age for British philosophy between 1950 and 1970. The Bounds of Sense is one of the most influential books ever written about Kant’s philosophy, and is one of the key philosophical works of the late twentieth century. Whilst probably best known for its criticism of Kant’s transcendental idealism, it is also famous for the highly original manner in which Strawson defended and developed some of Kant’s fundamental insights into the nature of subjectivity, experience and knowledge – at a time when few philosphers were engaging with Kant’s ideas.

The book had a profound effect on the interpretation of Kant’s philosophy when it was first published in 1966 and continues to influence discussion of Kant, the soundness of transcendental arguments, and debates in epistemology and metaphysics generally.

This Routledge Classics edition includes a new foreword by Lucy Allais.

Genres: Philosophy

325 pages, Kindle Edition

Published September 14, 2018

Reviews

[Bennett Rogers · Rating 3 out of 5]

I discovered about halfway into this work that I'm not interested enough in Kant to carefully slog my way through Strawson's work. Roger Scruton and Marcus Willaschek were help enough.