Mitteilungen zur Logiknachschrift Volckmanns
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Martin Walter
Abstract
This paper presents a comprehensive account of the rediscovered Logik-Volckmann, a hitherto unedited transcript of Kant’s logic lectures, written by Johann Wilhelm Volckmann between 1782 and 1783. The manuscript, preserved today in the Kant estate at the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences, is shown to derive from the same textual tradition as the Hechsel and Wiener notes, belonging to the so-called “Hoffmann-group” (Adickes). Through a detailed philological and codicological examination, the study reconstructs the provenance, transmission, and internal structure of the text, revealing its dependence on at least two earlier sources. The close parallels with V-Lo/Hechsel and V-Lo/Wiener confirm an early date of composition and thus connect the text with Kant’s lectures immediately following the publication of the Critique of Pure Reason (1781). Volckmann’s transcript preserves numerous formulations that anticipate or echo central distinctions of the Critique, such as that between the world-concept and the school-concept of philosophy. His compilation method illustrates how Kant’s students received, combined, and transmitted his evolving conception of logic. The paper therefore contributes to clarifying the formation of Kant’s logical corpus and the pedagogical mediation of his critical philosophy. It provides a solid textual and historical basis for future editorial and interpretative work on Kant’s lecture materials.
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Artikel in diesem Heft
- Titelseiten
- Nachruf auf Karl Ameriks (1947–2025)
- Abhandlungen
- The Logical Use of Reason in the First Critique and Its Connection with the Reflective Power of Judgment
- Practical Faith and Theoretical Practice: The Single Logic Underlying Kant’s Deduction of Nature’s Purposiveness and the Deduction of the Highest Good
- Der Platz der ‚Obersten Einteilung des Naturrechts‘ (AA 06: 242.12–19) in Kants Rechtslehre
- Berichte und Diskussionen
- Introduction: Kant and the Berlin Academy
- L’évaluation critique du concept de monade de Béguelin à Kant
- Johann Christoph Schwab et le kantisme
- The Story of a Phantom Conflict: The Dispute over Leibniz’s Philosophy in the Second Round of the Kant-Eberhard Controversy
- Saving Metaphysics: Kant and the Berlin Academy’s Reception of Critical Philosophy
- Mitteilungen zur Logiknachschrift Volckmanns
- Bibliographie
- Kant-Bibliographie 2023
- Buchbesprechungen
- Tinca Prunea-Bretonnet: L’Avènement de la métaphysique kantienne. Paris: Classiques Garnier, 2023, 351 pages. ISBN: 978-2406148173.
- Kants Schriften in Übersetzungen. Hrsg. von Gisela Schlüter. Hamburg: Meiner, 2020, 872 Seiten. ISBN 978-3-7873-3858-0. [Archiv für Begriffsgeschichte, Sonderheft 15.]
- Mitteilungen
- Gutachter-Dank
- Jahresinhalt Kant-Studien Jg. 116, 2025
Artikel in diesem Heft
- Titelseiten
- Nachruf auf Karl Ameriks (1947–2025)
- Abhandlungen
- The Logical Use of Reason in the First Critique and Its Connection with the Reflective Power of Judgment
- Practical Faith and Theoretical Practice: The Single Logic Underlying Kant’s Deduction of Nature’s Purposiveness and the Deduction of the Highest Good
- Der Platz der ‚Obersten Einteilung des Naturrechts‘ (AA 06: 242.12–19) in Kants Rechtslehre
- Berichte und Diskussionen
- Introduction: Kant and the Berlin Academy
- L’évaluation critique du concept de monade de Béguelin à Kant
- Johann Christoph Schwab et le kantisme
- The Story of a Phantom Conflict: The Dispute over Leibniz’s Philosophy in the Second Round of the Kant-Eberhard Controversy
- Saving Metaphysics: Kant and the Berlin Academy’s Reception of Critical Philosophy
- Mitteilungen zur Logiknachschrift Volckmanns
- Bibliographie
- Kant-Bibliographie 2023
- Buchbesprechungen
- Tinca Prunea-Bretonnet: L’Avènement de la métaphysique kantienne. Paris: Classiques Garnier, 2023, 351 pages. ISBN: 978-2406148173.
- Kants Schriften in Übersetzungen. Hrsg. von Gisela Schlüter. Hamburg: Meiner, 2020, 872 Seiten. ISBN 978-3-7873-3858-0. [Archiv für Begriffsgeschichte, Sonderheft 15.]
- Mitteilungen
- Gutachter-Dank
- Jahresinhalt Kant-Studien Jg. 116, 2025
