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
Enlightenment--in 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 contributions--the historicity of reason; the primacy of moral
praxis; the personalism of religious belief; and the transformation
of classical metaphysics into phenomenology of mind--Reinhold 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hitherto unpublished Masonic speeches by Reinhold, and a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.
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