Q&A: Kant
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Kant
Question
With God's help,
Hello Rabbi, which book do you recommend reading in order to become well acquainted with Kant's thought, and does the Rabbi recommend the book Kant and the Renewal of Metaphysics by Yirmiyahu Yovel?
Thank you very much
Answer
I don't know it. There is a book by Hugo Bergmann called Immanuel Kant. That's the only one I know in Hebrew, and it's perfectly fine.
Discussion on Answer
It seems to me that the Rabbi meant the book The Philosophy of Immanuel Kant.
Yes, I know. I just came to suggest some more useful books.
And actually, lately I've started reading Kant's own writings themselves; they contain many important nuances that don't appear in concise secondary literature like Professor Bergmann's.
Benny, I can add a list of books that I have:
Immanuel Kant, by Allen Wood.
The Open University textbook: A Study of Kant's Introductions, by Elazar Weinryb.
There's also a long introduction in the new edition of Critique of Pure Reason by Yirmiyahu Yovel, where he surveys Kant's philosophy thoroughly (Yovel's introduction is like a small book).
As far as I remember, Yirmiyahu Yovel's book Kant and the Renewal of Metaphysics is a kind of new interpretation by Yovel of Kant's philosophy, which, as far as I understood, is not all that widely accepted.
There's also a nice book by Yirmiyahu Yovel called Kant and History, where he focuses more on Kant's ethics.
The easiest book to read is Allen Wood's, and in my opinion the most successful one is Hugo Bergmann's.