It’s hard to understand Kant now, but it was especially hard to understand Kant in that first edition. (Image: After Peter Paul Rubens/CC BY SA/4.0/Public domain) A Puzzle of Knowledge Kant’s thought changed the world of philosophy and put a spotlight on the naivety of previous philosophers.
It was so difficult to attach Kant’s critiques to the fashionable questions, concerns, and formulations of his age in the scholarly world, that the work was largely ignored on first publication. It was vast, precisely because he had been so deep down inside himself thinking about this. By Charles Mathewes, Ph.D., University of Virginia In 1781, after a ten-year hiatus, Immanuel Kant broke his silence with the massive first edition of the Critique of Pure Reason.
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