Reinhold, Religion and the Fate of Reason
June 22, 2025•3,787 words
Is there any reason we should read Karl Leonhard Reinhold’s Letters on the Kantian Philosophy today? Reinhold, if we remember him today, is known for only two things: that he was an early popularizer of the new critical philosophy of Immanuel Kant, and that later he would turn away from Kant toward his own “elementary philosophy.” Reinhold’s Letters occupy an ambiguous place, because if we want to understand Kant, we can just read Kant, and if we want to understand Reinhold, we can turn to his l...
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