Karl Leonhard Reinhold and the Enlightenment
Karl Leonhard Reinhold (1757-1823) is a complex figure of the late German Enlightenment. Sometime Catholic priest and active Mason even when still a cleric in Vienna; early disciple of Kant and the first to try to reform the Critique of Reason; influential teacher and prolific author; astute comment...
| Other Authors: | Di Giovanni, George, 1935-, SpringerLink (Online Service) |
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Dordrecht ; London :
Springer,
2009.
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| Physical Description: |
1 online resource. |
| Series: |
Studies in German idealism ;
9. |
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| Summary: |
Karl Leonhard Reinhold (1757-1823) is a complex figure of the late German Enlightenment. Sometime Catholic priest and active Mason even when still a cleric in Vienna; early disciple of Kant and the first to try to reform the Critique of Reason; influential teacher and prolific author; astute commentator on the immediate post-Kantian scene; and at all times convinced propagandist of the Enlightenment--in all these roles Reinhold reflected his age but also tested the limits of the values that had inspired it. This collection of essays, originally presented at an international workshop held in Montreal in 2007, conveys this multifaceted figure of Reinhold in all its details. In the four themes that run across the contributions--the historicity of reason; the primacy of moral praxis; the personalism of religious belief; and the transformation of classical metaphysics into phenomenology of mind--Reinhold is presented as a catalyst of nineteenth century thought but also as one who remained bound to intellectual prejudices that were typical of the Enlightenment and, for this reason, as still the representative of a past age. The volume contains the text of two hitherto unpublished Masonic speeches by Reinhold, and a description of recently recovered transcripts of student lecture notes dating to Reinhold's early Jena period. |
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Includes bibliographical references and indexes. Note continued: 17. How Reinhold Helped Hegel Understand the German Enlightenment and Grasp the Pantheism Controversy / Jeffrey Reid -- pt. V Appendix: Sources and Materials -- 18. Zwei Wiener Reden Reinholds: Ein Beitrag zu Reinholds Fruphilosophie / Ernst-Otto Onnasch -- 19. Reinholds Vorlesungen 1792-1794 uber die Kritik der reinen Vernunft und uber Logik und Metaphysik: Kollegnachschriften Smidt, Kalmann, Krause / Erich Fuchs. Karl Leonhard Reinhold (1757-1823) is a complex figure of the late German Enlightenment. Sometime Catholic priest and active Mason even when still a cleric in Vienna; early disciple of Kant and the first to try to reform the Critique of Reason; influential teacher and prolific author; astute commentator on the immediate post-Kantian scene; and at all times convinced propagandist of the Enlightenment--in all these roles Reinhold reflected his age but also tested the limits of the values that had inspired it. This collection of essays, originally presented at an international workshop held in Montreal in 2007, conveys this multifaceted figure of Reinhold in all its details. In the four themes that run across the contributions--the historicity of reason; the primacy of moral praxis; the personalism of religious belief; and the transformation of classical metaphysics into phenomenology of mind--Reinhold is presented as a catalyst of nineteenth century thought but also as one who remained bound to intellectual prejudices that were typical of the Enlightenment and, for this reason, as still the representative of a past age. The volume contains the text of two hitherto unpublished Masonic speeches by Reinhold, and a description of recently recovered transcripts of student lecture notes dating to Reinhold's early Jena period. English. |
| Physical Description: |
1 online resource. |
| Bibliography: |
Includes bibliographical references and indexes. |
| ISBN: |
9789048132270 9048132274 |