Kant: A Biography

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KANT This is the first full-length biography in more than fifty years of Immanuel Kant, one of the giants among the pantheon of ...

Kant A Biography Manfred Kuehn Philipps-Universität Marburg CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS ...

PUBLISHED BY THE PRESS SYNDICATE OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE The Pitt Building, Trumpington Street, Cambridge, United Kingdom ...

To Margret ...

Contents Acknowledgments page ix Cast of Characters xi Chronology of Kant's Life and Works xv Prologue i 1 Childhood and Early Y ...

Acknowledgments THE FOUNDING of the North American Kant Society in 1986 was a sig¬ nificant event not only for Kant scholarship ...

Acknowledgments of the Institute of Philosophy at the Philipps-Universität Marburg, and of the Herder Institute in Marburg. I sp ...

Cast of Characters Boromski, Ludwig Ernst (1740-1832), one of Kant's first students; he remained friendly with Kant throughout h ...

xii Cast of Characters acter who lives by inviolable maxims and strictly by the clock. Later writers transferred these character ...

Cast of Characters xiii of the family with a standing invitation to their table, where he almost always sat at the place of hono ...

Chronology of Kant's Life and Works 1724 April 22: Immanuel Kant is born. 1732 Fall: Kant begins to attend the Collegium Frideri ...

xvi Chronology 1756 January to April: Three essays on the earthquake in Lisbon. April 8: Applies unsuccessfully for Knutzen's po ...

Chronology xvii Prize essay for the Berlin Academy: Inquiry Concerning the Distinctness of the Principles of Natural Theology an ...

xviii Chronology 1777 Another essay on the Dessau Philanthropinum. Tetens, Essays. Lambert dies. 1778 Declines an offer to becom ...

Chronology xix 1786 January: "Conjectural Beginning of the Human Race" (Mutmasslicher Anfang des Menschengeschichte) in Berlinis ...

xx Chronology 1791 September "On the Failure of All Attempts at a Theodicee" (über das Midlin- gen aller philosophischen Versuch ...

Chronology xxi 1796 Second edition of On Eternal Peace. Appendix to Sömmerring's On the Organ of the Soul (Über das Organ der Se ...

xxii Chronology 1803 On Pedagogy (Über Pädagogik), edited by Rink. April: Kant's last letter. October: Last illness. Herder dies ...