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KANT, Immanuel (1724-1804). Critik der reinen Vernunft. Riga: Johann Friedrich Hartknoch, 1781. 8° (205 x 123mm). Engraved title vignette and a few small engraved vignettes in text. (Some light marginal spotting, occasional light marginal browning or staining.) Contemporary marbled paper-covered boards, flat spine with orange label lettered in gilt, edges red (extremities rubbed, sides scuffed). Provenance: Schlessinger (bookseller's small ticket).
FIRST EDITION OF KANT'S MOST HIGHLY REGARDED WORK. 'The influence of Kant is paramount in the critical method of modern philosophy. No other thinker has been able to hold with such firmness the balance between speculative and empirical ideas. His penetrating analysis of the elements involved in synthesis, and the subjective process by which these elements are realized in the individual consciousness, demonstrated the operation of "pure reason"; and the simplicity and cogency of his arguments achieved immediate fame. Kant's achievements in other branches of philosophy were equally distinguished and fruitful... His methods... dominated western philosophical thought throughout the 19th century, as they do today' (PMM). Norman 1197; PMM 226; Warda, Die Druckschriften Kants, 59.
FIRST EDITION OF KANT'S MOST HIGHLY REGARDED WORK. 'The influence of Kant is paramount in the critical method of modern philosophy. No other thinker has been able to hold with such firmness the balance between speculative and empirical ideas. His penetrating analysis of the elements involved in synthesis, and the subjective process by which these elements are realized in the individual consciousness, demonstrated the operation of "pure reason"; and the simplicity and cogency of his arguments achieved immediate fame. Kant's achievements in other branches of philosophy were equally distinguished and fruitful... His methods... dominated western philosophical thought throughout the 19th century, as they do today' (PMM). Norman 1197; PMM 226; Warda, Die Druckschriften Kants, 59.
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