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Volume II.
May, 1893.
Whole
Number 3.
Number 9.

THE

PHILOSOPHICAL REVIEW.



BIBLIOGRAPHY OF WRITINGS BY AND ON KANT WHICH HAVE APPEARED IN GERMANY UP TO THE END OF 1887.

PREFACE.

THE arrangement of the works is chronological in both parts of the Bibliography. The conclusion will consist of an alphabetical list of persons and a systematic index. The latter will give, first, a much more careful division of material than would have been possible in a systematic arrangement of the whole Bibliography. Secondly, the systematic survey given by the index will be more exact than it would have been in the other case, because the works about Kant can be assigned not only to the department in which their chief content places them, but also to heads suitable to the particular discussions which they contain. Thirdly, a chronologically arranged bibliography will be more easily carried on, and, fourthly, will form a much better preliminary to an exhaustive presentation of the history of the Kantian Philosophy than could one systematically arranged. In the first part (works by Kant) the various issues of the several writings are not chronologically arranged, but are all enumerated under the first original edition; first the editions which appeared during Kant's life-time (or soon after his death, when issued by the first publisher), then — in brackets — their order in the complete editions and collections (whose designation is to be found in the list of abbreviations at the end of the Preface), and finally the separate editions.

In the second part (works on Kant) I have first arranged the writings of some authors chronologically or systematically, and

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