Karl Leonhard Reinhold and the Enlightenment

Karl Reinhold was an important and complex figure of the late German Enlightenment. This collection of essays discussing Reinhold includes two previously unpublished Masonic speeches he gave plus coverage of student lecture notes from his early Jena period.

Karl Leonhard Reinhold (1757-1823) is a complex figure of the late German Enlightenment. Sometime Catholic priest and active Mason even when still a cleric in Vienna; early disciple of Kant and the first to try to reform the Critique of Reason; influential teacher and prolific author; astute commentator on the immediate post-Kantian scene; and at all times convinced propagandist of the Enlightenmentin all these roles Reinhold reflected his age but also tested the limits of the values that had inspired it. This collection of essays, originally presented at an international workshop held in Montreal in 2007, conveys this multifaceted figure of Reinhold in all its details. In the four themes that run across the contributionsthe historicity of reason; the primacy of moral praxis; the personalism of religious belief; and the transformation of classical metaphysics into phenomenology of mindReinhold is presented as a catalyst of nineteenth century thought but also as one who remained bound to intellectual prejudices that were typical of the Enlightenment and, for this reason, as still the representative of a past age. The volume contains the text of two hitherto unpublished Masonic speeches by Reinhold, and a description of recently recovered transcripts of student lecture notes dating to Reinhold's early Jena period.

A vivid picture of the late German Enlightenment as reflected in the complexities of Reinholds personality A document of the most recent research on Reinhold and his contribution to the making of post-Kantian Idealism Reinhold as the originator of the late 18th century historical turn in philosophy Includes hitherto unpublished materials Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras

Inhalt
Reinhold, Freemason and Educator of Humankind.- Karl Leonhard Reinhold and the Enlightenment: Editor's Presentation.- Reinhold, Franc-Maçon et philosophe de l'Aufklärung.- Le travail d'Aufklärer de Reinhold auprès de ses étudiants d'Iéna.- The Conception of Enlightenment in Reinhold's Letters on the Kantian Philosophy.- Reinhold, Lavater et les Lumières.- Bürgerliche Aufklärung und streng systematische Philosophie. Zum Verhältnis von Leben und Philosophie bei K. L. Reinhold.- Reinhold and the Historical Turn.- Reason's Changing Needs: From Kant to Reinhold.- Reinhold, History, and the Foundation of Philosophy.- Reinhold in Struggle with Religious and Moral Issues.- K. L. Reinhold und der Glaube der Vernunft.- Reinhold a Kantian? Practical Reason in Reinhold's Briefe über die Kantische Philosophie and Versuch einer neuen Theorie des menschlichen Vorstellungsvermögens.- Le «besoin de la raison» dans les Lettres sur la philosophie kantienne (17861787).- Zwei Wege der Kantischen Praktischen Vernunft: Reinhold und Fichte.- Reinhold and Systematicity: Theory of Science and Theory of Mind.- und Gegenstand der Vorstellung in Reinholds Elementarphilosophie.- Reinhold's Critics: Kantian and Anti-Kantian.- Reinhold's Road to Fichte: The Elementary-Philosophy of 1795/96.- Architektur und System. Das Verhältnis von Gedankengebäude und Baugedanke.- How Reinhold Helped Hegel Understand the German Enlightenment and Grasp the Pantheism Controversy.- Appendix: Sources and Materials.- Zwei Wiener Reden Reinholds: Ein Beitrag zu Reinholds Frühphilosophie.- Reinholds Vorlesungen 17921794 über die Kritik der reinen Vernunft und über Logik und Metaphysik: Kollegnachschriften Smidt, Kalmann, Krause.