Karl Leonhard Reinhold and the Enlightenment

ISBN-13: 9789400732926 / Angielski / Miękka / 2012 / 338 str.

George Di Giovanni

Opis

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 The volume contains the text of two hitherto unpublished Masonic speeches by Reinhold, and a description of recently recovered transcripts of student lecture notes dating to Reinhold's early Jena period.

Recenzje

From the reviews:

"A very welcome addition to the hitherto sketchy critical literature on Reinhold. ... Giovanni portrays Reinhold's adherence to the abstract ideals of the classical enlightenment as in tension with just those features of post-Kantian idealism ... . invaluable for anyone wanting to understand both the architecture and dynamics of Reinhold's views ... . we should not ignore its apparently intended status as an historically particular and specifically targeted intervention within the pedagogy of humankind, informed by an historical conception of reason and its changing needs." (Paul Redding, Philosophy in Review, Vol. XXXI (4), 2011)

Spis treści

1. Karl Leonhard Reinhold and the Enlightenment: Editor’s Presentation, George di Giovanni Part 1. Reinhold, Freemason and Educator of Humankind 2. Reinhold, Franc-Maçon et philosophe de l’Aufklärung, Ives Radrizzani 3. Le travail d’Aufklärer de Reinhold auprès de ses étudiants d’Iéna, Jean-François Goubet 4. The Conception of Enlightenment in Reinhold’s Letters on the Kantian Philosophy, Martin Bondeli 5. Reinhold, Lavater et les Lumières, Pierluigi Valenza 6. Bürgerlische Aufklarüng und strenge systematische Philosophie: Zum Verhältnis von Leben und Philosophie bei K. L. Reinhold, Michael Gerten Part 2. Reinhold and the Historical Turn 7. Reason’s Changing Needs: From Kant to Reinhold, Daniel Breazeale 8. Reinhold, History, and the Foundation of Philosophy, Karl Ameriks Part 3. Reinhold in Struggle with Religious and Moral Issues 9. K. L. Reinhold und der Glaube der Vernunft, Alessandro Lazzari 10. Reinhold a Kantian? ‘Practical Reason’ in ‘Briefe über die Kantische Philosophie’ and Versuch einer neuen Theorie des menschlichen Vorstellungsvermögen, Karianne Marx 11. Le ‘besoin de la raison’ dans les Lettres sur la philosophie kantienne (1786-1787), Claude Piché 12. Zwei Wege der kantischen Praktischen Vernunft: Reinhold und Fichte, Marco Ivaldo Part 4. Reinhold and Systematicity: Theory of Science and Theory of Mind 13. Inhalt und Gegenstand der Vorstellung in Reinholds Elementarphilosophie, Faustino Fabbianelli 14. Reinhold’s Critics: Kantian and Anti-Kantian, Brigitte Sassen 15. Reinhold’s Road to Fichte: The Elementary-Philosophy of 1795/96, Sven Bernecker 16. Architektur und System. Das Verhältnis von Gedankengebäude und Baugedanke, PetraLohman 17. How Reinhold Helped Hegel Understand the German Enlightenment and Grasp the Pantheism Controversy, Jeffrey Reid Appendix. Sources and Materials 18. Zwei Wiener Reden Reinholds: Ein Betrag zu Reinholds Frühphilosophie, Karianne Marx, Ernst-Otto Onnasch 19. Reinholds Vorlesungen 1792-94 über die Kritik der reinen Vernunft und über Logik & Metaphysik, Eric Fuchs.Bibliography.