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AMERIKS, Karl. Interpreting Kant's Critiques. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 2003. viii + 351 pp. Cloth, $80.00; paper, $24.95-In Interpreting Kant's Critiques, Karl Ameriks collects many of his most important essays on Kant's theoretical philosophy, practical philosophy, and aesthetics-demonstrating at once a breadth of philosophical concern that is rare for contemporary Kant scholars (but not unique: among Americans, Henry Allison, Allen Wood, and Paul Guyer also come to mind), a detailed familiarity with a wide range of both English- and German-language literature, and a willingness to defend interpretations of Kant's texts that challenge current assumptions.
Anchored by an Introduction ("The Common Ground of Kant's Critiques" pp. 1-48) in which the author tries to show how the essays that follow are guided by a set of unifying interpretive ideas-in particular, by "a regressive account of the necessary conditions of human experience" (p. 4)-the essays themselves are grouped into three parts (part 1: "The First Critique and Kant's Theoretical Philosophy"; part 2: "The Second Critique and Kant's Practical Philosophy"; part 3: "The Third Critique and Kant's Aesthetics"). The...