Bücher der Reihe Reinholdiana

Editorial Advisory Board: Karl Ameriks (Notre Dame, USA), Daniel Breazeale (Kentucky, USA), Martin Bondeli (Bern, Switzerland), Claude Piche (Montreal, Canada), George di Giovanni (Montreal, Canada), Faustino Fabbianelli (Parma, Italy), Marion Heinz (Siegen, Germany), Alexander von Schonborn (Missouri, USA) The series Reinholdiana consists of monographs and collected volumes dealing with the philosophy of Karl Leonhard Reinhold. In recent years Reinhold has become the focus of increasing scholarly attention. On the one hand this is due mainly to the important role he plays in the earliest reception of Immanuel Kant's critical philosophy, but on the other hand it is also the result of the various new editions and translations of his work. The influence that Reinhold had on contemporary understanding of Kant means that his work serves as a bridge between Kant and German idealism. The series deliberately places no emphasis on any particular scholarly method. The intention is to provide rapidly growing international interest in research on Reinhold with a high-profile academic publication platform.

Reinhold's Elementary Philosophy is the first system of transcendental philosophy after Kant. Thescholarship of the last years has understood it in different ways: as a model of Grundsatzphilosophie, as a defense of the concept of freedom, as a transformation of philosophy into history of philosophy. The present investigation intends to underline another 'golden thread' that runs through the writings of Reinhold from 1784 to 1794: that which sees in the Elementary Philosophy a system of transcendental psychology.