The writings of Immanuel Kant represent the high-water mark of modern philosophy. Few men have had as broad and profound an influence as he did. Josiah Royce, for example, described Kant as "the thinker upon whom more than upon any other center, modern thought turns as upon a fulcrum."  The sheer bulk of Kant's Critique — in many ways his central work — has often deterred readers. Now, Norman Kemp Smith, in this authoritative and new translation, provides a skillfully abridged edition from which all minor and repetitive parts have been omitted.  The editors of the Modern Library are pleased to include it as one of the great books that all readers will want to own.