Lectures on Anthropology

Hardback

Main Details

Title Lectures on Anthropology
Authors and Contributors      By (author) Immanuel Kant
Edited and translated by Robert B. Louden
Edited and translated by Allen W. Wood
Translated by Robert R. Clewis
Translated by G. Felicitas Munzel
SeriesThe Cambridge Edition of the Works of Immanuel Kant
Physical Properties
Format:Hardback
Pages:640
Dimensions(mm): Height 241,Width 162
Category/GenreHistory of Western philosophy
Western philosophy - c 1600 to c 1900
ISBN/Barcode 9780521771610
ClassificationsDewey:301
Audience
Professional & Vocational

Publishing Details

Publisher Cambridge University Press
Imprint Cambridge University Press
Publication Date 20 December 2012
Publication Country United Kingdom

Description

Kant was one of the inventors of anthropology, and his lectures on anthropology were the most popular and among the most frequently given of his lecture courses. This volume contains the first translation of selections from student transcriptions of the lectures between 1772 and 1789, prior to the published version, Anthropology from a Pragmatic Point of View (1798), which Kant edited himself at the end of his teaching career. The two most extensive texts, Anthropology Friedlander (1772) and Anthropology Mrongovius (1786), are presented here in their entirety, along with selections from all the other lecture transcriptions published in the Academy edition, together with sizeable portions of the Menschenkunde (1781-2), first published in 1831. These lectures show that Kant had a coherent and well-developed empirical theory of human nature bearing on many other aspects of his philosophy, including cognition, moral psychology, politics and philosophy of history.

Author Biography

Robert B. Louden is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Southern Maine. Allen W. Wood is Ruth Norman Halls Professor of Philosophy at Indiana University. Robert R. Clewis is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Gwynedd-Mercy College. G. Felicitas Munzel is Associate Professor, Program of Liberal Studies, University of Notre Dame.