Mittagsbüchlein
Selbstzeugnisse eines greisen Königsbergers und Berichte seiner Zeitgenossen
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Given the sheer number of editions of Immanuel Kant’s works and an even larger amount of research literature, a biographically interesting gap is surprising. A group of documents left behind that were written by Kant has not received sufficient attention so far: The so-called Memorien- or Mittagsbüchlein from the last years of the life of the Königsberg philosopher. Drawing on other contemporary sources, Werner Stark addresses this desideratum with the present edition of two previously unpublished ›booklets‹ from 1802 and 1803 and uncovers numerous details from Kant’s private life that are relevant for research. In an essay, Kurt Röttgers sheds light on the »table cooperative« as a social form.
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»Der Band ist inhaltlich und gestalterisch ein kostbares Gut. Man blickt erwartungsvoll in die Zukunft. Man hat noch viel zu erwarten von der Reihe ›Forschungen und Materialien zur deutschen Aufklärung‹.«
»A study of these texts will not likely alter anyone’s reading of Kant’s philosophical writings, but they do offer biographical insight into his last years, and it is remarkable that such a distinctive collection of texts from Kant’s Nachlaß has, until now, evaded the light of proper scholarship.«
All volumes
- Immanuel Kant: Mittagsbüchlein – available
- Kant: Neue Reflexionen. Die frühen Notate zu Baumgartens ›Metaphysica‹. – available
- Tetens: Über die allgemeine speculativische Philosophie – available
- Tolstoj: Gedanken Immanuel Kants – available
- Baumgarten: Metaphysica / Metaphysik – available
- Wolff: Discursus praeliminaris de philosophia in genere. Einleitende Abhandlung über Philosophie im allgemeinen – available