Kant's Early Critics: The Empiricist Critique of the Theoretical Philosophy

by Edited and translated by Brigitte Sassen

• ISBN13: 9780521781671
• ISBN10: 0521781671
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2000-08-28
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Summary

This book offers translations of the initial (1781-89) critical reactions to Kant's philosophy. Also included is a selection of writings by Kant's contemporaries who took on the task of defending the critical philosophy against early attacks. The first aim of this collection is to show in detail how Kant was understood and misunderstood by his contemporaries. The second aim is to reveal the sorts of arguments that Kant and his first disciples mounted in their defense of the theoretical philosophy. The third aim of the book is to contribute to an understanding of the development of Kant's critical philosophy after its initial formulation in the Critique of Pure Reason, and in particular why Kant made the changes he did in the second edition of the work in 1787. This collection, which includes a glossary of key terms and biographical sketches of the critics on both sides of the debate, is a major addition to Kant scholarship and should be seen as a companion volume to the Cambridge Edition of the Works of Immanuel Kant.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	vii
Frequently Cited Texts and Abbreviations	ix
Introduction: Major Trends in the Early Empiricist Reception of Kant's Critical Philosophy	1	(52)
I. Feder/Grave and Garve
The Gottingen Review Zugabe zu den Gottingischen Anzeigen von gelehrten Sachen (January 19, 1782): 40-8	53	(6)
Anonymous
The Garve Review Critique of Pure Reason AdB supplements to vols. 37-52 (1783): 838-62	59	(22)
Christian Grave
Immuanuel Kant
II. The Transcendental Aesthetic
``On the Nature of Metaphysics: An Examination of Professor Kant's Principles-Against the Aesthetic'' Hessische Beytrage zur Gelehrsamkeit und Kunst 1 (1785), 113-30	81	(12)
Dietrich Tiedemann
Elucidations of Professor Kant's `Critique of Pure Reason AdB 66/1 (1786): 92-123	93	(13)
Hermann Andreas Pistorius
Johann Schultze
On Space and Causality: An Examination of the Kantian Philosophy, 1-64, 84*-91*	106	(21)
Anonymous
Johann Georg Heinrich Feder
On Space and Causality: An Examination of the Kantian Philosophy ALZ (28 January 1788): 249-54	127	(6)
Anonymous
Johann Georg Heinrich Feder
Investigation into the First Grounds of the Doctrine of the Senses, 87-92	133	(6)
Friedrich Gottlob Born
III. Idealism
On Space and Causality: An Examination of the Kantian Philosophy, 61-83*, 114-18	139	(16)
Johann Georg Heinrich Feder
On the Transcendental Aesthetic: A Critical Attempt, 131-75	155	(14)
J. C. G. Schaumann
``On Transcendental Idealism'' David Hume uber den Glauben oder Idealismus und Realismus, 209-30	169	(7)
Friedrich Heinrich Jacobi
Critique of Pure Reason AdB 81/2 (1788): 343-54	176	(7)
Hermann Andreas Pistorius
Immanuel Kant
Investigation into the First Grounds of the Doctrine of the Senses, 117-20, 141-53	183	(10)
Friedrich Gottlob Born
IV. The Categories
``Attempt at a Proof That There Are No Pure Concepts of Reason That Are Independent of Experience'' Berlinische Monatsschrift (1784): 565-75	193	(6)
C. G. Selle
``Continuation of the Examination of Professor Kant's Thoughts About the Nature of Metaphysics-Against the Analytic'' Hessische Beytrage zur Gelehrsamkeit und Kunst 1 (1785) 233-48	199	(11)
Dietrich Tiedemann
Institutiones Logicae et Metaphysica ALZ (13 December 1785): 297-9	210	(5)
Johann Schultz
Jo. Aug. Henr. Ulrich
On Kantian Forms of Thought or Categories, 3-41, 103-11	215	(18)
Gottlob August Tittel
V. Empiricism vs. Purism
``Some Remarks About Empiricism and Purism in Philosophy Occasioned by Selle's Principles of Pure Philosophy'' Appendix to the Dictionary for Easier Use of Kant's Writing, 619-68	233	(22)
Carl Christian Erhard Schmid
``On Carl Christian Erhard Schmid's Essay About Kant's Purism and Selle's Empiricism'' AdB 88/1 (1789): 104-22	255	(24)
Hermann Andreas Pistorius
Appendices
A: About the Authors	270	(5)
B: Biographical Sketches of Figures in Early Kant Reception	275	(4)
Notes	279	(25)
Glossary	304	(15)
Bibliography	319	(7)
Index	326