Bird (emeritus philosophy, U. of Manchester and honorary, U. of Wales) synthesizes material and ideas he had pretty well developed by the late 1950s to correct misguided trends in recent textbooks on Kant's first Critique. The first section examines the prefaces and introduction, but otherwise he focuses on ideas and groups of ideas rather than following the contour of the original text. He covers the aesthetic, the analytic of concepts, the analytic of principles, and the transcendental dialectic and the doctrine of method. Annotation ©2006 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)