Umwege (Detours) explores the reception of Kant’s work in Vienna, Austria and in Eastern Europe from the viewpoint of the history of philosophy, focusing on six topics: Kant and Censorship, Kant and Karl Leonhard Reinhold – who was the first Kantian born in Vienna and became a precursor for German and Austrian Kant reception in Jena –, Kant and Eastern Europe, Kant and his Poets, Kant and Phenomenology, and Kant and the Vienna Circle.
This approach also sheds a clearer light on the ambivalent perception of Kant in Austria: on the one hand Kant was censored and harshly criticized, but on the other hand Kant’s philosophy was actively studied in the “underground”.
This publication is available at ERSTE Foundation Library.
