First published in 2005. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

A reprint of the Macmillan edition of 1968. While most interpretive studies of the _Critique of Pure Reason_ are either too scholarly or too superficial to be of practical use to students, Hartnack has achieved a concise comprehensive analysis of the work in a lucid style that communicates the essence of extraordinarily complex arguments in the simplest possible way. An ideal companion to the _First Critique_, especially for those grappling with the work for the first time.

Justus Hartnack provides a highly accessible, philosophically astute introduction to Hegel’s logic.

To his question whether the heated wax, Despite its changing properties, Remains the same piece of wax, Descartes simply answers that it does and that no one would judge otherwise. It is argued that the reason why this is so can be neither empirical nor can it be of a logical deductive kind. The reason is transcendental, That is, The concept of that which does not change during change is a necessary condition, I.E., It is a category. It is a (...) necessary condition for any language to be used to talk about and to describe the world of change. (shrink)

A history of epistemology ranging from Hume to Kant, written by Justus Hartnack, who has been recognized as one of the most distinguished philosophers of our time.

Im Gegensatz zu Kants Philosophie, die in der logischen Unmöglichkeit des Wissens vom «Ding an sich» resultierte, ist Hegel imstande, durch seine Analyse des Begriffs des Seins jene Kategorien zu entdecken, die von universaler ontologischer Gültigkeit sind. Das Buch ist eine Erläuterung eines der wichtigsten Werke Hegels, das den Höhepunkt metaphysischen Denkens markiert. Bemerkenswert ist der Ausgang des Verfassers von der sprachanalytischen Philosophie, wodurch Hegels Logik vom Denken der Gegenwart her aufgeschlossen werden soll. Ein Überblick über die dänische Hegelrezeption stellt (...) die Interpretation in ihren historischen Rahmen. (shrink)