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REINHOLD (Karl Leonhard).

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Reinhold's first book, a key text in post-Kantian idealism

First edition. 8vo. [iv], 579, [1] pp. Contemporary half roan with paste-paper covered boards, pink paste-paper pastedowns, red edges (early ownership inscription to title page, occasional underlining and reading marks, longer ink annotations on pp. 244, 326, 344, 363 and 562, isolated ink blotches, only minimal occasional spotting; spine heavily rubbed, shelf-wear to extremities, corners bumped). Prag und Jena, C. Widtmann und I.M. Mauke, 1789.

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REINHOLD (Karl Leonhard).

Versuch einer neuen Theorie des menschlichen Vorstellungsvermögens.

The first book by the Austrian philosopher Karl Leonhard Reinhold (1757-1823), titled Attempt towards a New Theory of the Human Power of Representation, a key text in the systematisation and popularisation of Kantian philosophy.

‘It would be difficult to exaggerate the influence of Reinhold’s inquiries into systematicity and first principles upon an entire generation of philosophers. This project was enthusiastically embraced by Fichte and the young Schelling, and inspired others, notably Hegel, to re-examine (and to question) the alleged connection between systematic form and self-evident first principles. Reinhold’s work remains one of the clearest examples of a thoroughgoing ‘foundationalist’ project in the history of European philosophy’ (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy).

Adickes, German Kantian Bibliography, 252.

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