Kant's Analytic

''Mr Bennett as was to be expected has written a first-rate book on Kant''s Analytic. It is vivid entertaining and extremely instructive. It will be found of absorbing interest both by those who already know the Critique and by those - if there are any such - who have a developed interest in philosophy yet no direct acquaintance with Kant. These last it will surely drive to the text and as surely will drive them to approach it in a truly philosophical spirit. Bennett''s Kant is not a giant immersed or frozen in time. He is a great contemporary - a little out of touch admittedly with recent developments in mathematics and physics - but one with whom we can all argue against him at his side or obliquely to him. And so Bennett does argue continuously fiercely and fruitfully; and summons to join in the argument at appropriate moments those older contemporaries Locke Leibniz Berkeley and Hume and those younger contemporaries Wittgenstein Ryle Ayler Quine Quinton Warnock and others. This is splendid and a necessary corrective to that extraordinary isolation in which Kant tends to be islanded partly indeed by his own unique qualities but partly by oceans of the wrong kind of respect. Bennett continuously engaging his great antagonist shows the right kind.''