Abstract

Paul Guyer's Reason and Experience in Mendelssohn and Kant is the product of over forty years of scholarly research. Guyer published his first article in 1976 and his first book in 1979. His work has encompassed the whole of Kant's corpus: while he began his career writing on Kant's aesthetics, he was concerned even then with the epistemological and practical contours of Kant's thinking. His subsequent work takes up these aspects of Kant's thought directly. Methodologically, too, Guyer's work has situated his close analysis of Kant's texts within the context of contemporaneous debates of Kant's immediate predecessors. Reason and Experience in Mendelssohn and Kant bears the hallmarks of a...