By George di Giovanni (auth.), George Giovanni (eds.)

Karl Leonhard Reinhold (1757-1823) is a fancy determine of the past due German Enlightenment. someday Catholic priest and lively Mason even if nonetheless a cleric in Vienna; early disciple of Kant and the 1st to attempt to reform the Critique of cause; influential instructor and prolific writer; astute commentator at the rapid post-Kantian scene; and constantly confident propagandist of the Enlightenment––in a lot of these roles Reinhold mirrored his age but additionally verified the bounds of the values that had encouraged it. This selection of essays, initially provided at a global workshop held in Montreal in 2007, conveys this multifaceted determine of Reinhold in all its info. within the 4 subject matters that run around the contributions––the historicity of cause; the primacy of ethical praxis; the personalism of spiritual trust; and the transformation of classical metaphysics into phenomenology of mind––Reinhold is gifted as a catalyst of 19th century concept but additionally as person who remained sure to highbrow prejudices that have been general of the Enlightenment and, as a result, as nonetheless the consultant of a prior age. the amount includes the textual content of 2 hitherto unpublished Masonic speeches via Reinhold, and an outline of lately recovered transcripts of pupil lecture notes courting to Reinhold’s early Jena period.