Kant - Critique of Pure Reason

Pros: Influential, well-reasoned, thorough

Cons: Extremely dense

Review: Kant's Critique of Pure Reason just may be the most important philosophical treatise ever composed.

This book is not an easy read. Kant was never one to include examples or to make things easy on the reader. Furthermore, like Hegel, most of...

Pros: everyone is reading it; many claim to benefit from it ...

Cons: ... but they're lying

Review: No one, except for the Kant scholar your university has stowed away in its basement has managed to get through the whole Critique. Rather, everyone reads the first 100 or so pages, through what everyone calls the A&B deductions (the section entitled...