Korrespondenzausgabe
In cooperation with the Austrian Academy of Sciences.
The significance of Reinhold’s (1757/8–1823) as an independent philosopher and as the founder of the philosophy of idealism is increasingly being recognized. A member of the circle of friends of the masonic lodge »Zur wahren Eintracht«, which included the most prominent intellectuals of Austria at that time among its members, he was an illuminate in close touch with Bode, as Wieland’s son-in-law he was in constant communication with classical Weimar and was was given critical influence by Kant. With his theory of the power of imagination, presented in 1789, he became the leading philosopher of his time, and it was not until 1794 that Fichte took over this position. He corresponded with the most prominent philosophers and authors of his time. Each volume contains philological, literary and historical annotations as well as indexes of persons, literature and subjects. More than a third of all the letters have been published for the first time.
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»Diese Brief-Edition genügt in philologischer und philosophischer Hinsicht hohen Ansprüchen. Insbesondere die Sacherklärungen und Kommentierungen beweisen die große Kennerschaft der Herausgeber, die auch die von der Forschung noch nicht ausgeleuchteten Bereiche und Bezüge von Reinholds Wirken zuverlässig erschließen. [...] Die Bände beweisen in Ausstattung und Gestaltung erneut das vom Frommann-Holzboog-Verlag gewohnte exzellente ästhetische und technische Niveau. [...] Summa summarum kann der Wert dieses Editionsprojekts [...] nicht hoch genug veranschlagt werden.«
