Correspondence (The Cambridge Edition of the Works of Immanuel Kant)

This is the most complete English edition of Kant's correspondence that has ever been compiled. The letters are concerned with philosophical and scientific topics but many also treat personal, historical, and cultural matters. On one level the letters chart Kant's philosophical development. On another level they expose quirks and foibles, and reveal a good deal about Kant's friendships and philosophical battles with some of the prominent thinkers of the time: Herder, Hamann, Mendelssohn, and Fichte. Contents General Editors’ Preface Introduction 1749 To Leonhard Euler. 1759 From Johann Georg Hamann.1 To Johann Gotthelf Lindner1 October 28, 1759. From Johann Georg Hamann. From Johann Georg Hamann. From Maria Charlotta Jacobi, née Schwinck.1 June 12, 1762. To Johann Heinrich Samuel Formey1 June 28, 1763 To Charlotte von Knobloch.1 9 [33] (31) From Johann Heinrich Lambert.1 To Johann Heinrich Lambert. From Johann Heinrich Lambert. To Moses Mendelssohn.1 To Moses Mendelssohn. To Johann Gottfried Herder.1 From Johann Gottfried Herder. To Simon Gabriel Suckow. 1770 To Johann Heinrich Lambert. From Marcus Herz. To Marcus Herz. From Johann Heinrich Lambert. From Johann Georg Sulzer.1 From Moses Mendelssohn. To Marcus Herz. June 7, 1771. From Marcus Herz. 1772 To Marcus Herz. To Marcus Herz. 1774 To Johann Georg Hamann. April 6, 1774. From Johann Georg Hamann. To Johann Georg Hamann. From Johann Caspar Lavater.1 April 8, 1774. 31 [99] (9°) To Johann Casper Lavater. To Johann Casper Lavater. 33 [io9] (98) To Christian Heinrich Wolke.1 34 [IIQ] (99) To Johann Bernhard Basedow.1 35 [II21 (IQI) To Marcus Herz. To Marcus Herz. To Johann Gottlieb Immanuel Breitkopf.1 To Marcus Herz. 39 N0] (I27) To Marcus Herz. To Marcus Herz. From Marcus Herz. To Marcus Herz. 43 N6! (i33) To Marcus Herz. To Marcus Herz. To Marcus Herz. To Johann Erich Biester1 June 8, 1781. To Johann Bernoulli.1 From Johann Heinrich Kant with Postcript from his wife. From Moses Mendelssohn. From Christian Garve.1 To Christian Garve. To Moses Mendelssohn. From Johann Schultz. 54 [209] (I9I) To Johann Schultz. To Johann Schultz. From Johann Schultz. To Friedrich Victor Leberecht Plessing.1 To Johann Schultz. From Friedrich Victor Leberecht Plessing.1 From Friedrich Victor Leberecht Plessing. To Theodor Gottlieb von Hippel.1 From Christian Gottfried Schiitz.1 From Christian Gottfried Schütz. To Christian Gottfried Schütz.1 September 13, 1785. From Moses Mendelssohn. From Johann Erich Biester. From Christian Gottfried Schütz. To Christian Gottfried Schütz. From Christian Gottfried Schiitz. To the Philosophical Faculty. From Marcus Herz. From Ludwig Heinrich Jakob.1 73 lz66\ (247) To Johann B ering.1 74 [267] (248) To Marcus Herz. From Friedrich Gottlob Born.1 To Ludwig Heinrich Jakob. From Johann Erich Biester. 1787 To Christian Gottfried Schiitz. 79 [303] (283) To Ludwig Heinrich Jakob. From Carl Leonhard Reinhold.1 From Johann Cristoph Berens.1 December 5, 1787. IO:5°7 To Marcus Herz. To Carl Leonhard Reinhold December 28 and 31, 1787. From Carl Leonhard Reinhold.1 To Carl Leonhard Reinhold. From Christian Gottfried Schiitz. 87 [333] (3^) To Johann Schultz, 89 [346] (324) From Heinrich Jung-Stilling.1 To Heinrich Jung-Stilling. After March 1, 1789. 91 [351] (329) From Marcus Herz. 92 [352] (33°) From Salomon Maimon.1 93 [354] (332) From Johann Benjamin Jachmann.1 94 [359] (337) To Karl Leonhard Reinhold. 95 [36°] (338) To Karl Leonard Reinhold. To Marcus Herz. From Johann Heinrich Kant. To Friedrich Heinrich Jacobi. 99 [377] (354) To Johann Wilhelm Andreas Kosmann.1 From Friedrich Heinrich Jacobi. 101 [394] (371) From Johann Gottfried Carl Christian Kiesewetter. 1790 To Johann Gottfried Carl Christian Kiesewetter. To Ludwig Ernst Borowski.1 To Johann Gottfried Carl Christian Kiesewetter. March 25, 1790. 105 [4H] (391) To François de la Garde.1 To Johann Gottfried Carl Christian Kiesewetter. From Johann Gottfried Carl Christian Kiesewetter. From Ludwig Heinrich Jakob. From Salomon Maimon. From Salomon Maimon. To Johann Friedrich Blumenbach.1 112 [439] (4Ilb) To Abraham Gotthelf Kästner.1 To August Wilhelm Rehberg.1 114 [45 !] (429) From Abraham Gotthelf Kastner. 115 [452] (421) From Johann Benjamin Jachmann.1 To Johann Friedrich Reichardt.1 ii7 t461] (43°) To Christoph Friedrich Hellwag.1 January 3, 1791 To Johann Friedrich Gensichen.1 April 19, 1791. 119 [474] (443) From Johann Gottfried Carl Christian Kiesewetter. June 14, 1791. From Maria von Herbert.1 121 [479] (44**) From Ludwig Ernst Borowski. From Johann Gottlieb Fichte.1 From Johann Gottlieb Fichte. 124 [485] (454) To Ludwig Ernst Borowski. From Salomon Maimon. To Karl Leonhard Reinhold. To Jacob Sigismund Beck.1 To Jacob Sigismund Beck. From Jacob Sigismund Beck. 1792 To Jacob Sigismund Beck. J3* [503] (470 To Johann Heinrich Kant. !32 [504] (472) To Johann Gottlieb Fichte. x33 [505] (473) From Johann Heinrich Kant. 134 [5o6] (474) From Johann Gottlieb Fichte. To Christian Gottlieb Selle.1 February 24, 1792. From Johann Erich Biester. *37 [510] (478) To Maria von Herbert. *38 [5I5i (483) From Jacob Sigismund Beck. x39 [5*8] (486) From Johann Erich Biester. 14° [5J9] (487) To Prince Alexander von Beloselsky.1 To Jacob Sigismund Beck. To Johann Erich Biester. T43 [523] (49T) From Johann Gottlieb Fichte. To the Theological Faculty in Königsberg.1 145 b"27] (495) From Jacob Sigismund Beck. I46 [536] ( - ) To Rudolph Gottlob Rath.1 To Jacob Sigismund Beck. To Ludwig Ernst Borowski. 149 [545] (512) From Jacob Sigismund Beck. 15° [548] (515) From Salomon Maimon. [549] (5l6) To Jacob Sigismund Beck. 152 [552] (519) To Johann Benjamin Erhard.1 December 21, 1792 i53 [554] (521) From Maria von Herbert. 154 [557] (524) From Johann Benjamin Erhard. 155 [559] (526) To Elisabeth Motherby.1 February n, 1793. To Carl Spener.1 157 [572] (539) To Abraham Gotthelf Kastner. !58 [574] (541) To Carl Friedrich Staudlin.1 To Matern Reuß.1 To Friedrich Bouterwek.1 To Johann Gottlieb Fichte From Johann Gottfried Carl Christian Kiesewetter. To Jacob Sigismund Beck. 11:441 August 18, 1793. From Johann Gottlieb Fichte. From Johann Erich Biester.1 From Johann Gottfried Carl Christian Kiesewetter. From Salomon Maimon. To Johann Gottfried Carl Christian Kiesewetter. From Johanna Eleonora Schultz.1 11:481 December 22, 1793. 1794 From Maria von Herbert. To Karl Leonhard Reinhold. To Johann Erich Biester. x73 [625] (59°) To Johann Erich Biester. From Jacob Sigismund Beck. *75 [634] (599) To Jacob Sigismund Beck. From Friedrich August Nitsch.1 From Friedrich Wilhelm II.1 To Friedrich Wilhelm II.1 To François Théodore de la Garde.1 To Carl Friedrich Stäudlin. From Samuel Collenbusch.1 December 26, 1794. To Friedrich Schiller.1 To Carl Leonhard Reinhold. To Samuel Thomas Soemmerring,1 To Samuel Thomas Soemmerring. To Johann Gottfried Carl Christian Kiesewetter. October 15, 1795. From Sophie Mereau.1 1796 From Matern Reufi1 April 1, 1796. From Conrad Stang.1 To Johann Heinrich Kant. i797 I9I [752] (7I5) To Johann August Schlettwein.1 !92 [754] (7I7) From Jacob Sigismund Beck. 193 [755] (718) From Johann Heinrich Tieftrunk.1 !94 [756] (7I9) From Jacob Sigismund Beck. 195 [761] (724) To Christian Gottfried Schütz. To Johann Heinrich Tieftrunk July 12, 1797 From Christian Weiss.1 To Jacob Axelson Lindblom.1 199 [784] (745) To Johann Heinrich Tieftrunk. From Johann Heinrich Tieftrunk. To Johann Gottlieb Fichte. To Johann Heinrich Tieftrunk. 203 [791] (752) From Marcus Herz. December 25, 1797. 204 [794] (755) From Johann Gottlieb Fichte. 2°5 [795] (756) To Johann Schultz. January 9, 1798. To Christoph Wilhelm Hufeland.1 To Johann Heinrich Tieftrunk. To Friedrich Nicolovius.1 From John Richardson.1 From Christian Garve. To Christian Garve. To Johann Gottfried Carl Christian Kiesewetter. From Johann Gottried Carl Christian Kiesewetter. To Friedrich Nicolovius. To Johann Gottfried Carl Christian Kiesewetter. Declaration concerning Fichte’s Wissenschaftslehre.1 August 7, 1799. Biographical Sketches Glossary Index of Persons This is a most complete English edition of Kant's correspondence. The letters are concerned with philosophical and scientific topics but many also treat personal, historical and cultural matters. On one level the letters chart Kant's philosophical development. On another level they expose quirks and foibles, and reveal a good deal about Kant's friendships and philosophical battles with some of the prominent thinkers of the time: Herder, Hamann, Mendelssohn and Fichte. What emerges from these pages is a vivid picture of the intellectual, religious and political currents of the late eighteenth-century Prussia, in which there is much to be learnt about topics such as censorship, and the changing status of Jews and women in Europe. Amongst the special features of this volume are: a substantial introduction, detailed explanatory notes, a glossary, and biographical sketches of correspondents and people referred to in the letters The universal indebtedness to you of all the world for your great accomplishments may excuse my boldness in asking for your illuminating evaluation of these modest Thoughts on the [True] Estimation of Living Forces.