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Karl Ameriks, and Otfried Höffe, (eds), Kant's Moral and Legal Philosophy , Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2009

Reading articles on Kant’s practical philosophy sometimes gives you the impression that the Anglophone and German traditions approach their object of study in, textually speaking, two different ways. More often the first sets out with a clear purpose regarding a distinct subject, focusing on relevant material throughout the text. The second takes more of an explorative approach and concentrates on as little as one specific section or paragraph (of course with the occasional detour), accentuating discoveries along the road rather than arriving at a certain end. Whereas no conclusions regarding the relative fruitfulness of the two approaches will be drawn here, in the Cambridge series on ‘The German Philosophical Tradition’ there is now available a compilation of translated essays that may serve as a good introduction both to a scholarly approach and to scholars themselves unfortunately tending to fall outside the acquaintance of a strictly English reading public. Editors Karl Ameriks and Otfried Höffe have in Kant’s Moral and Legal Philosophy gathered a fine collection of commentary essays written by prominent members of German academia. The essays mainly stem from Höffe’s already well-established publication series Klassiker Auslegen, a series that for the last decade or so has provided valuable interpretative advice relating to classical philosophical texts. Also this English equivalent of a ‘cooperative commentary’, which reflects the ‘steady stream of significant new [German] Kant scholarship’ (pp. 2ff.), is perhaps primarily aimed at (graduate) university students, although all scholars of Kant’s practical philosophy will find essays of interest. Through detailed analysis, the contributors address and comment on what they hold to be often overlooked key passages, to present a nuanced perspective, mainly from within the Kantian tradition itself. The close orientation towards the original texts characterizes the vast majority of the essays and provides them with an impressive argumentative solidity, without becoming too dense or convoluted in the process. The first part paints an introductory picture of Kant’s practical philosophy. The two essays in this section take a somewhat different route from the other contributions, less orientated towards a textual analysis of a certain passage than highlighting the theoretical context of Kant’s moral thought, in this case regarding its early conceptions. Dieter Henrich and Clemens Schwaiger call attention to the influence that, respectively, Hutcheson and Baumgarten exercised on Kant at this stage. Although the pair ultimately become the objects of significant critique, Henrich and book reviews