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The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2025. Hardcover, xii, 403 pp.; 25 cm; first printing of the English translation; illustrated with black-and-white portraits and engravings. Translated by Peter Lewis.
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In Very Good condition with a Very Good dust jacket. Lime green paper-covered boards, cream lettering and Belknap device on spine; mild shelf and edge wear with some scuffing and a hint of soiling along edges. Binding tight. Lime green endpapers. Pages clean and unmarked. Cream dust jacket illustrated by Jorg Hulsmann with a cross-hatched portrait of Kant ringed by color drawings of planets, an armillary sphere, quill, books and wildflowers; a few small nicks and creasing along edges, including a small nick at top edge by rear flap fold; mild shelf and edge wear with some scuffing and soiling. Now in an archival quality (removable) Brodart cover. English translation of Kant: Die Revolution des Denkens (C. H. Beck, 2023), written for the 300th anniversary of Kant's birth by Marcus Willaschek, Professor of Philosophy at Goethe University Frankfurt and editor of the Academy's standard edition of Kant's works. Thirty self-contained chapters are arranged by theme rather than chronology, beginning with Kant's political and historical writings, then moving through moral philosophy, law, religion, nature and aesthetics to the Critique of Pure Reason and metaphysics. Biographical chapters follow Kant's life in Konigsberg, his lectures on physical geography, his struggle with Prussian censorship and his lunch table. The preface addresses Kant's racist and anti-Semitic statements directly. Illustrations include portraits of Kant, Frederick the Great and Christian Wolff and a view of Konigsberg. Includes chronology, glossary of philosophical terms, notes and index. Contents: Preface; Kant's Three Revolutions; Part I, Politics and History within the Boundaries of Mere Reason; Part II, The Morality of Reason; Part III, Rational Beings in Society; Part IV, Humans as Part of Nature; Part V, Metaphysical Knowledge and Its Limits; Part VI, The End; Chronology; Glossary of Philosophical Terms; Note on Sources; Notes; Acknowledgments; Index.