Scenes from Kant’s Life in Twelve Pictures
Scenes from Kant’s Life in Twelve Pictures
North Manchester
Professor Emeritus of Philosophy
Manchester University
Steve Naragon is Professor Emeritus of Philosophy at Manchester University in Indiana.
His publications include:
Portraits of Kant: Recollections from 18th and 19th-Century Europe, 3 vols. (London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2024).
Immanuel Kant, Lectures on Metaphysics, co-translated and co-edited with Karl Ameriks (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1997), xlvii, 642 pp. [Re-issued with revisions as a paperback in 2001.]
Naragon`s websites:
"Kant in the Classroom" - since August, 2006.
"J. G. Herder’s Student Notes from Immanuel Kant’s Lectures" (forthcoming with De Gruyter). Current draft. A new transcription of Herder’s notes from Kant’s lectures on metaphysics, moral philosophy, physical geography, logic, mathematics, and physics, with an introduction, explanatory and textual notes, a linked text of Alexander Baumgarten’s Metaphysica (the textbook from which Kant lectured on metaphysics), and high-resolution images of the original manuscripts. Funded by the Berlin-Brandenburg Akademie der Wissenschaften. The transcription and textual/explanatory notes will be included as a separate volume of Kant's gesammelte Schriften (De Gruyter) that will bring together all of Herder’s notes from Kant’s lectures.
Some articles related to the presentation:
“Introduction.” Herder’s Notes from Kant’s Lectures, edited by Steve Naragon and Werner Stark (de Gruyter, forthcoming).
“Lectures.” The Kantian Mind, edited by Sorin Baiasu and Mark Timmons (London: Routledge, 2023), pp.479-93.
Karl Gottfried Hagen, “Memorial Address for William Motherby,” edited, annotated, and translated by Steve Naragon. Kant und Königsberg in Kaliningrad, website of the Freunde Kants und Königsberg e.V. Posted 2022.
“Kant’s Lectures on Metaphysics.” The Cambridge Kant Lexicon, edited by Julian Wuerth (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2021), pp. 770-77.
“Internet Resources for Translating Kant.” Kants Schriften in Übersetzungen, edited by Gisela Schlüter, unter Mitwirkung von Hansmichael Hohenegger (Hamburg: Felix Meiner Verlag, 2020), pp. 205-21. [Archiv für Begriffsgeschichte, Sonderheft 15]
“Chronology of Kant’s Life” and “Kant’s Life.” The Palgrave Kant Handbook, edited by Matthew C. Altman (Palgrave Macmillan, 2017), pp. xxxi-xliv, 21-47.
“Herder’s Student Notes from Kant’s Metaphysics Lectures.” Herder: From Cognition to Cultural Science, edited by Beate Allert (Synchron Publ., 2016), pp. 249-58.
Kant-Lexikon, 3 vols., edited by Georg Mohr, Jürgen Stolzenberg, and Marcus Willaschek (New York/Berlin: Walter de Gruyter, 2015). Total of 20 articles: Maschine; Herz; Leib; Gehirn; Automat; Gehör; Geräusch; Geruch; Betastung; Sehen; Täuschung der Sinne; Ton; Taubheit; Nerven; Physiologie; Technizismus; Haut; Physiognomik; Kant’s “Anhang zu Sömmering: Über das Organ der Seele”; Samuel Thomas Sömmering.
“Reading Kant in Herder’s Notes.” Reading Kant’s Lectures, edited by Robert R. Clewis (Berlin: Walter de Gruyter, 2015), pp. 37-62.
“Kant’s Career in German Idealism.” The Palgrave Handbook of German Idealism, edited by Matthew C. Altman (Palgrave Macmillan, 2014), pp. 15-33.
(with Werner Stark) “Ein Geschenk für Rose.” Kant-Studien, 104.1: 1-12 (2013). Spanish translation (by Ana-Carolina Gutiérrez-Xivillé) published as: “Un regalo para Rose Burger. Notas y comentarios sobre una recién hallada hoja de Kant.” Isegoría. Revista de Filosofía Moral y Política, 48: 333-44 (2013).
“‘A Good, Honest Watchmaker’: J. C. F. Schulz’s Portrait of Kant from 1791.” Kant-Studien, 101: 217-26 (2010).
“The Metaphysics Lectures in the Academy Edition of Kants Gesammelte Schriften” in Zustand und Zukunft der Akademie-Ausgabe von Kants Gesammelten Schriften, edited by Reinhard Brandt and Werner Stark (Berlin: de Gruyter, 2000), pp. 189-215.
“Kant on Descartes and the Brutes.” Kant-Studien, 81: 1-23 (1990).
Dictionary of Eighteenth-Century German Philosophers, 3 vols. (London/New York: Continuum, 2010). General editors: Manfred Kuehn (Boston University) and Heiner Klemme (Wuppertal). Total of 46 articles.
Scenes of Kant's Life in Twelve Ptures
One hundred years has passed since Clasen’s foundational 1924 survey of the Kantian iconography.
Continued research and the depredations of time – especially during the final year of World War II – make an update to Clasen overdue.
Apart from that, studying Kant’s images reveals more than just his outward appearance, but also something of the man himself, his character and personality.