description: Kritik der praktischen Vernunft (Riga: Johann Friedrich Hartknoch, 1788), 292 pp. [Ak. 5:1-164] “Critique of Practical Reason.” Translated by Lewis White Beck, Immanuel Kant: Critique of Practical Reason and Other Writings in Moral Philosophy (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1949). Translated by Mary J. Gregor in Immanuel Kant, Practical Philosophy, edited by Mary J. Gregor (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1996), pp. 139-271.Kant sent the manuscript to the printers (Grünert, in Halle) in summer 1787 (letter to C. G. Schütz, 25 June 1787: “I intend to send it to Halle for printing next week” (Ak. 10:490); letter to L. H. Jakob, 11 September 1787: “My Critique of Practical Reason is at Grunert’s now” (Ak. 10:494).Originally given to Wasianski as a gift, Kant’s own copy of this book is available in Halle (at the university archive). Kant’s marginalia are recorded in the “Lesarten” printed in Ak. 5, and a complete set of facsimilies of this copy is available at the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences
language: German
title: Kritik der Praktischen Vernunft
titlecomplete: Kritik der Praktischen Vernunft
genres: Literature, German Literature, Classics, Psychology, Metaphysics, Philosophy, Germany, 18th Century, Politics, Nonfiction
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publisher: De Gruyter