'Central Works Of Philosophy' is a major multi-volume set of essays on the core texts of the Western philosophical
tradition. The seventeenth and eighteenth centuries saw a brilliant outpouring of philosophical thought unprecedented in
human history. Together philosophy and science pushed medieval and Renaissance scholasticism aside to lay the
foundations of the modern world. Beginning with Descartes' Meditations, the contributors examine some of philosophy's
most seminal texts of the period. as either an affirmation or rejection of Kant.
This volume therefore begins with Kant's magnum opus, the Critique of Pure Reason. Michelle Grier provides a masterly distillation of this monumental work.
