KANT - First Russian Translation Critique of Pure Reason (1867)

Description: KANT, Immanuel, Kritika Chistago Razuma (Critique of Pure Reason), translated by Mickhail I. Vladislavlev, N. Tiblena (N. Nekludova), St Petersburg, 1867. Blank leaf + TP + 1 leaf = dedication + [i] - iv = contents + [i] - xxxviii = translator’s forward + [i] - xxxiii = Kant’s dedication and preface to the first edition of 1781 + [1] - 627 + blank leaf, octavo. First Russian Edition. Unquestionably one of, if not the, most significant events facilitating the study of Kant's philosophy in Russia during the reign of Tsar Alexander II. This publication in 1867 of the first translation of the Critique of Pure Reason was made by an upcoming young scholar Mickhail I. Vladislavlev (1840-90), who had spent over 2 years at the universities of Heidelberg, Göttingen, and Leipzig. Vladislavlev's translation is not without flaws as witnessed by the appearance of subsequent translations, particularly that of N. O. Losskij, still in use with some modifications today. Despite its deficiencies, Vladislavlev’s translation was a remarkable accomplishment for someone still in his mid-20s" (Nemeth, pp. 155-6). The philosophy of Immanuel Kant was met with much ambivalence in 19th century Russia as the emerging “sons” generation, the raznochintsy, and their scientific materialism and positivism struggled to make sense of Kant’s transcendental idealism. Kant's Critik der Reinen Vernunft (first 1781) is one of the most influential philosophy books ever published, the first version of the Critique of Pure Reason. "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. Of the two main systems which preceded his own, Kant had little or no sympathy with the metaphysical categorization of the Cartesians, and inclined more to the empirical methods of Locke and Leibniz 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. His penetrating analysis of the elements involved in synthesis, and the subjective process by which these elements are realized in the individual consciousness, demonstrated the operation of 'pure reason'; and the simplicity and cogency of his arguments achieved immediate fame" (PMM). CONDITION: Contemporary half leather. Small private institutional stamps, otherwise, a very good copy. Front fly with foxing, small handwritten name on title. Scattered, light (and minimal) pencil marginalia to the first 50 pages or so. Now housed in a 1/4 morocco slipcase with chemise.

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