Versuch einer neuen Theorie des menschlichen Vorstellungsvermögens. Prag und Jena: C. Widtmann und I.M. Mauke, 1789.

REINHOLD, Karl Leonhard

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First edition, dedicated to Immanuel Kant (and two others). The 68-page preface is 'Ueber die bisherigen Schicksale der kantischen Philosophie'. 'In 1787 Reinhold moved to the University of Jena, where he held the first professorial chair devoted exclusively to Kantian philosophy. At Jena, Reinhold turned his attention to the theoretical foundations of Kant s critical philosophy, which he believed stood in need of serious systematic revision. The fruit of this revisionist effort was Reinhold s own Elementary Philosophy , which . remains his most substantial and influential contribution to the development of post-Kantian philosophy. He expounded this new Elementary Philosophy in 'Versuch einer neuen Theorie des menschlichen Vorstellungsvermögen' (Attempt towards a New Theory of the Human Power of Representation, 1789) . Reinhold s radical revision and implicit critique of orthodox Kantianism exercised an immense influence upon many of his contemporaries, including the philosopher who followed him at Jena, Johann Gottlieb Fichte, though Fichte did not believe Reinhold had succeeded in discovering the deepest foundations of transcendental idealism' (Dictionary of Eighteenth-Century German Philosophers, Thoemmes Continuum, 2010). Adickes 252. PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION: 8vo, [iv], 579, [1] pp., contemporary half leather, rubbed with wear at spine head and top corners, title-page with early ownership inscription, occasional underlinings and reading marks, longer annotations on pp. 244, 326, 344, 363 and 562, isolated ink blotches, a sound copy overall. Seller Inventory # ABE-1692633466373

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