KANT, IMMANUEL. - [A MAIN WORK OF GERMAN IDEALISM]
Prolegomena zu einer jeder künftigen Metaphysik die als Wissenschaft wird auftreten können.
Riga, bey Johann Friedrich Hartknoch, 1783. 8vo. Fully uncut in cont. marbled wrappers, rebacked w. newer marbled paper-spine matching the boads. A few tears. Lacking lower right corner of front-wrapper. Woodcut title-vignette, woodcut flower-and putti-headpiece on p. 3 and woodcut end-vignette (bar w. leaves). 222 pp.
¶ First edition of Kant's masterpiece, the more popular exposition of the ideas presented in his main work "Critik der reinen Vernunft" (1781). There exist three variants of the first edition, distinguishable by head- and tailpieces, and this is the second one listed in Warda, i.e. Warda 76.
This work constitutes a more comprehensible exposition of the main thoughts of Kant's "Critique of Pure Reason", and it is probably one of the most frequently read and approachable of his works.
After having received immense negative critique and having been misunderstood with the first edition of the "Critique of Pure Reason", Kant wrote his "Prolegomena" as a defense and explanation, and he later incorporated much of it into the second edition of the "Critique of Pure Reason"; -it is with the ideas expounded in this work that Kant becomes world-famous. "Kant's great achievement was to conclude finally the lines on which philosophical speculation had proceeded in the eighteenth century, and to open up a new and more comprehensive system of dealing with the problems of philosophy... 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... " (PMM 226).
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