Paul Guyer - The Cambridge Companion to Kant

BIBLIOGRAPHY

The literature on Kant, as might be expected from both the range of his work and his centrality in the history of modern philosophy is enormous. The following bibliography is necessarily selective. In view of the aims of the present series, it focuses on recent books and collections of articles, although including some older works that have attained classical status. Only very important articles that have not been republished in collections by their authors or anthologies have been listed separately; individual articles in collections that are included are not listed separately. The bibliography also emphasizes works in English, although some of the most important works in German and a few in French have been included. Books that include especially extensive bibliographies are noted. Further bibliographical information can be found in the bibliographical surveys by Rudolf Malter that have been published since 1969 in Kant-Studien, the official journal of the Kant-Gesellschaft. More recently, bibliographical surveys prepared by Manfred Kuehn have been published in the newsletter of the North American Kant Society. An annotated bibliography on Kants ethics is Kantian Ethical Thought: A Curricular Report and Annotated Bibliography (Tallahassee: Council for Philosophical Studies, 1984). An extraordinary annotated bibliography of 2,832 items on Kant through 1802 (two years before Kants own death!) edited by Erich Adickes was published in English in The Philosophical Review from 1893 to 1896, and reprinted as German Kant Bibliography (New York: Burt Franklin, 1970). This is indispensable for studying the early reception of Kant. Many of the important works by Kants early critics and admirers catalogued in this work were reprinted in the series Aetas Kantiana (Brussels: Culture et Civilisation, 196873).

The division of the following bibliography reflects the customary broad divisions in discussions of Kants philosophy. More specialized works on Kants philosophy of physical science, politics, and biological science have been listed separately, but some of the more general works in the divisions that they follow also treat of these issues. Many works fit even less neatly into these divisions, which are intended only to help the reader get started in further study of Kant.

RANTS WORKS: GERMAN EDITIONS

The standard critical edition of Kants works, the pagination of which is cited by most contemporary authors on Kant, is Kants gesammelte Schriften, edited by the Kniglich Preuischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, subsequently the Deutsche Akademie der Wissenschaften (originally under the general editorship of Wilhelm Dilthey). Twenty-nine volumes (twenty-seven thus far published) in thirty-four parts. Berlin: Georg Reimer, subsequently Walter de Gruyter, 1900. The edition is divided into four parts: Werke (volumes 19), Briefe (volumes 1013), Handschriftliche Nachla (volumes 1423), and Vorlesungen (volumes 2429, no volumes 25 and 26). This edition is widely referred to as the Akademie edition.

The following twentieth-century editions are also cited:

Ernst Cassirer, ed. Werke. 11 vols. Berlin: Bruno Cassirer, 191222.

Wilhelm Weischedel, ed. Werke in sechs Bnden. Wiesbaden: Insel Verlag, 195662. Reprinted in 12 vols. but with the original pagination by Suhrkamp Verlag, Frankfurt am Main, 1968. Unlike the Akademie edition, this contains German translations of Kants several Latin works.

Editions of individual works are also published in the Philosophische Bibliothek of Felix Meiner Verlag, Hamburg. These include the standard edition of the Critique of Pure Reason:

Immanuel Kant. Kritik der reinen Vernunft. Ed. Raymund Schmidt. 2d ed. Hamburg: Felix Meiner Verlag, 1930.

Two other volumes of special note in this series are

Immanuel Kant. Briefwechsel. Ed. Rudolf Maker. Hamburg: Felix Meiner Verlag, 1986 (includes letters not in Akademie edition).

Immanuel Kant. Metaphysische Anfangsgrnde der Rechtslehre: Metaphysik der Sitten, Erster Teil. Ed. Bernd Ludwig. Hamburg: Felix Meiner Verlag, 1986 (proposes a new arrangement of some paragraphs of the previously accepted text).

ENGLISH TRANSLATIONS

This list includes only the most important translations currently in widespread use. An undertaking currently in preparation, The Cambridge Edition of the Works of Immanuel Kant, will provide new or revised translations of all of Kants published works and selections from his correspondence, Nachla, and lectures. Among the first volumes to appear, beginning in approximately 1992, will be Pre-Critical Writings, Opus postumum, Lectures on Logic, and Correspondence. Until that edition is completed, the following translations are recommended. Volumes of multiple works are listed first, followed by translations of individual works, listed in alphabetical order of the title of the translation.

Multiple works

Kant: On History. Ed. Lewis White Beck; trans. Lewis White Beck, Robert E. Anchor, and Emil Fackenheim. Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill, 1963.

Kants Critique of Practical Reason and Other Works on the Theory of Ethics. Trans. Thomas Kingsmill Abbott. 6th ed. London: Longmans Green, 1909.

Kants Critique of Practical Reason and Other Writings in Moral Philosophy. Trans. Lewis White Beck. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1949.

Kants Latin Writings: Translations, Commentaries, and Notes. Trans. Lewis White Beck, Mary J. Gregor, Ralf Meerbote, and John A. Reuscher. New York: Peter Lang, 1986.

Kants Political Writings. Ed. Hans Reiss, trans, by H. B. Nisbet. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1970.

Perpetual Peace and Other Essays on Politics, History, and Morals. Trans. Ted Humphrey. Indianapolis: Hackett, 1983.

Selected Pre-Critical Writings and Correspondence with Beck. Trans. G. B. Kerferd and D. E. Walford, with a contribution by P. G. Lucas. Manchester: Manchester University Press and New York: Barnes & Noble, 1968.

Individual works

Anthropology from a Pragmatic Point of View. Trans. Mary J. Gregor. The Hague: Martinus Nijhoff, 1974.

The Conflict of the Faculties. Trans. Mary J. Gregor. New York: Abaris Books, 1979.

Critique of Aesthetic Judgement. Trans. with analytical indexes by James Creed Meredith. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1911.

Critique of Teleological Judgement. Trans. with analytical indexes by James Creed Meredith. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1928.

[Both of the two preceding texts without indices were reprinted as: Kants Critique of Judgement. Trans. James Creed Meredith. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1952.]

Critique of Judgment: Including the First Introduction. Trans. Werner S. Pluhar. Indianapolis: Hackett, 1987.

Critique of Practical Reason. Trans. Lewis White Beck. Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill, 1956 (now Macmillan).

Critique of Pure Reason. Trans. Norman Kemp Smith. 2d ed. London: Macmillan, 1933.

Dreams of a Spirit-Seer. Trans. E. F. Goerwitz. London: Swan Sonnenschein, 1900.

The Educational Theory of Immanuel Kant. Trans. Edward Franklin Buchner. Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott, 1904.

First Introduction to the Critique of Judgment. Trans. James Haden. Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill, 1965.

The Groundwork of the Metaphysics of Morals (originally The Moral Law). Trans. H. J. Paton. London: Hutchinson, 1949 (now Harper & Row). Or:

Foundations of the Metaphysics of Morals and What Is Enlightenment? Trans. Lewis White Beck. Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill, 1959 (now Macmillan).

The Kant-Eberhard Controversy: An English translation together with supplementary materials and a historical-analytical introduction of Immanuel Kants on a New Discovery According to Which Any New Critique of Pure Reason Has Been Made Superfluous by an Earlier One.