Continued Reading/Study

This was a great idea of Andrew's, namely, that I might suggest some books for you to continue reading or study beyond this course. Below I have included other writings by each philosopher and also on some of the topics we discussed.

Other works by Kant, you might want to read.
Critique of Pure Reason (Guyer/Wood translation, from Cambridge UP),
Critique of Judgment (Pluhar translation, Hackett)--on aesthetics
Groundwork for the Metaphysics of Morals--on a purely rational ethical philosophy

Two contemporary interpretations of Kant's transcendental idealism:
P.F. Strawson, The Bounds of Sense
Henry Allison, Kant's Transcendental Idealism

One excellent and accessible guide to the Critique of Pure Reason:
Sebastian Gardner, The Routledge Philosophy Guidebook to Kant and the Critique of Pure Reason


On transcendental idealism, more broadly construed:
Salomon Maimon, Essay on Transcendental Philosophy (by a contemporary of Kant's who the latter described as having the most insight into his work, only recently translated into English)
Quentin Meillassoux, After Finitude (by a contemporary philosopher)

Other works by Hegel
Phenomenology of Spirit, but especially the selections entitled "Lordship and Bondage" and "Preface"
Philosophy of Right (a work on political philosophy, more readable)
Faith and Knowledge, (early, readable work, on the limits on reason and the role of faith in transcendental philosophy)

On something like "the ethical"
Alastair Macintyre, After Virtue (not Hegelian in orientation, but does discuss virtue ethics in great detail, and is a great work, regardless)
Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics


Other works by Marx
The Communist Manifesto (actually, not as good as other texts, in my opinion)
"The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte" (an excellent historical study by Marx)
"The Civil War In France" (Marx's early journalism)
Capital (actually pretty readable, very interesting)
The Marx-Engels Reader (Norton, a must have, with an excellent selection of readings)

Contemporary work by Marxists and Marxist historians
Louis Althusser, For Marx
Fernand Braudel, Civilization and Capitalism
Adorno and Horkheimer, Dialectic of the Enlightenment

Other works by Kierkegaard
Repetition (included with the Princeton edition of Fear and Trembling)
Either/Or

On Kierkegaardian philosophemes
Martin Buber, I and Thou
Emmanuel Levinas, Totality and Infinity

Existentialist literature
Jean-Paul Sartre, Nausea (didactic but interesting)
Albert Camus, The Stranger (the classic work)
Walker Percy, The Moviegoer (I read this in college and really liked it)
Arthur Koestler, Darkness at Noon (I haven't read this, so cannot vouch for it)
Pretty much anything by Dostoyevsky (I'm not crazy about him, the rest of the world is)