A Primer on Bartlett’s Critique of Impure Reason

Abstract

Some books are long and complex. The Critique of Impure Reason is such a book. It is long enough and complex enough so that it may be a service to some readers to offer a primer to introduce and partially summarize the book’s objectives and method. Here, the author of Critique of Impure Reason: Horizons of Possibility and Meaning provides such a guide, a vade mecum to accompany a reader should he or she embark on a study of the long and complex work.

Keywords: epistemology, theory of reference, theory of meaning, theory of possibility, self-reference, reflexivity, transcendental argumentation, Steven James Bartlett, Critique of Impure Reason