REINHOLD, Karl Leonhard.

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Versuch einer neuen Theorie des menschlichen Vorstellungsvermögens. First edition of this key commentary by one of Kant's earliest and most successful advocates. Reinhold (1757-1823) primarily aims to simplify and unify Kant's philosophy - but he equally seeks to amend its flaws, and so provided the foundations for many subsequent idealistic interpretations of Kantianism. "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).

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