‎"KANT, IMMANUEL.‎
‎Prolegomena zu einer jeder künftigen Metaphysik die als Wissenschaft wird auftreten können. - [MAIN WORK OF GERMAN IDEALISM]‎

‎Riga, bey Johann Friedrich Hartknoch, 1783. 8vo. In contemporary full sprinkled calf with gilt lettering to spine. Spine and edges of boards with wear. Small repair to lower margin of first two leaves, not touching text. Small worm-tract to upper margin of first 18 ff. A with marginal underlinings in pencil. 222 pp.‎

Reference : 61779

‎The rare first edition, first issue, of Kant's masterpiece, the more popular exposition of the ideas presented in his main work ""Critik der reinen Vernunft"" (1781). Three variants of the first edition appeared in the same year, distinguishable by head- and tailpieces;"" this is the first, as described in Warda, 75.This work constitutes a more comprehensible exposition of the main thoughts of Kant's """"Critique of Pure Reason"""", and the """"prolegomena"""", being one of the most frequently read and most approachable of his works, also became one of Kant's most influential. It is responsible for spreading his thoughts among a much wider audience than his other works. After having received immense negative critique and having been misunderstood with the first edition of the """"Critique of Pure Reason"""", Kant wrote his """"Prolegomena"""" as a defense and explanation"";"" he later incorporated much of it into the second edition of the """"Critique of Pure Reason"""". It is with the ideas expounded in this work that Kant becomes world-famous. """"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... 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... """" (PMM 226). Warda 75.‎