Anthropologie in pragmatischer Hinsicht abgefakt (Anthropology from a pragmatic point of view) by KANT, Immanuel - 1798

Konigsberg: Friedrich Nicolovius, 1798. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good. Kant’s Major Contribution to Psychology

KANT, Immanuel, Anthropologie in pragmatischer Hinsicht abgefakt (Anthropology from a pragmatic point of view), Friedrich Nicolovius, Konigsberg, 1798. 1 leaf + TP + [iii]-xiv = vorrede + half-title + [3]-334 + 1 blank leaf, Octavo. First Edition [Warda 195].

Kant’s major contribution to psychiatry and psychology in which he classifies the mental diseases and analyzes sensation, imagination and feeling, concluding that the study of man can not be scientific since it was not mathematizable. This is the last of Kant's self-published works and his only published work dealing with medical psychology wherein he makes a major contribution to psychiatry. In the preface, he points out that this text represents his manual for a course of lectures which he gave over a period of thirty years at the University of Konigsberg.

The Anthropologie is Kant's attempt to catalogue the powers of the mind and to describe their functions in some detail. For a number of years he had been researching and lecturing about various classifications of mental disorders. Kant "introduces a point of view and a methodological suggestion which at the same time was highly original and which was to prove extremely fruitful. Kant suggests that mental disease has something to do with the interaction of man's need and the demands his environment makes upon him, or the frustration to which it subjects him" (Zilboorg, A History of Medical Psychology, pp. 308-09).

CONDITION: Very good in contemporary ¾-leather with marbled boards. Mild foxing. Small ownership inscription to upper corner of front free endpaper. A lovely contemporary copy.


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