But most of the things we find soothing and comforting are such because they are constrictive: they hide horrors and difficulties from sight, let us safely regress, take a vacation from the world and its worries. Kant is almost unique in ... I think the definitive translation would be The Cambridge Edition of the Works of Immanuel Kant tr. and ed. by Paul Guyer and Allen Wood. Any serious reading of Kant's Critiques would have to refer to this series. Steven Shaviro says: ...