KANT, Immanuel.

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Physische Geographie. First authorised edition of these geographical treatises, published in response to Vollmer's pirated edition of 1801.Kant was among the first scholars to include geography on a university curriculum, lecturing on the topic from 1756 to 1796. In the view of a contemporary, "in these lectures Kant was all things to all men, and it was perhaps in them that he gained the most useful and powerful influence over the men of his time" (quoted in Chamberlain, p. 39). In 1801, Gottfried Vollmer brought out a four-volume series purporting to be derived from these lectures. The venerable philosopher swiftly denounced these and authorized the present edition in response.He discusses water, land, atmosphere, and the geographical movements of animals, before outlining a series of specific continental studies. Scholars have emphasized the connection between Kant's physical geography and his broader critical philosophy - particularly regarding the concept of space.The editor, Friedrich Theodor Rink (1770-1811), originally studied under Kant at Königsberg, before becoming an associate professor in the philosophy faculty there in 1794. Kant entrusted him with many of his lecture notes and papers: Rink also published Kant's Lectures on Pedagogy in 1803.

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