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Critique of Pure Reason (Penguin Classics)
by Immanuel Kant
from Penguin Classics
Customer Reviews:
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Avg. Customer Rating: 4.5 / 5.0 
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Excellent English rendering of the CPR by Weigelt 
Reviewer A. Lowry raises a very good question, whether the idea of an edition of this book for the 'casual reader' even makes sense.
Kant himself, after all, in his own preface, acknowledges that the work is too technical for popularization, being intended mainly as a grounding for internal critique of theoretical sciences (although the effect of such critique would and should eventually have effects in popular thought, which it has).
And yet, despite a questionable rationale for this new Penguin... more info
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An erudite and extremely readable translation!
I studied the Critique back in the '60s using the Kemp Smith translation, and have reread it every number of years since to see if my mind is aging. When I read this translation, I was amazed at how much I understood. Then I compared it to the Kemp Smith and realized that the real reason was that the translation was eminently more readable and understandable than even the Kemp Smith, which itself was an improvement over Meiklejohn and Muller.
There are scholarly endnotes which explain the translation... more info
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just an observation
This is just an observation about one word. On page B1 of the Felix Meiner edition (1976), Kant wrote the word Erfahrungserkenntnis. Couldn't one translate this as "experiential knowledge"? Yet Mueller put empirical experience, and Weigelt changed that to empirical knowledge.
Maybe there is an explanation for the "english" put on this word!
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KdrV for the casual reader? 
Having studied philosophy way back when, I looked forward to the Penguin edition of the 1st Critique. Max Muller's translation still has its advocates today, and I liked the idea of a no-pressure, Penguin Classix version that I could just sit down and read for the fun of it.
That got me about to the Transcendental Deduction, as you would expect.
Which leaves me with the question, whom is this edition for? If you're setting out to study the book, a ponderous translation like Pluhar or Guyer/Wood... more info
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