Notice of Lambert's Correspondence
Kant recommends publishing Johann Heinrich Lambert's surviving writings and explains Johann Bernoulli's subscription schedule. Letters reveal inquiry in progress, particularly a capacity to detect gaps in the sciences.
Understanding the text
This 1782 announcement supports an editorial venture begun in 1781; it is neither Lambert's complete correspondence nor a new philosophical treatise by Kant.
Key points
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Publication
Subscription funding makes the posthumous circulation of manuscripts materially possible for an editor and readers.
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Inquiry
Kant values Lambert's ability to recognize problems and devise methods for investigating them.
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Scholarly networks
Correspondents, editors and readers jointly transmit knowledge beyond the boundaries of completed books.
How to read it
Distinguish Kant's notice from the announced volumes and examine how intellectual judgment becomes practical support for an edition.
Editions & sources
Summaries and key points are original editorial interpretations. They accompany reading the work and do not replace an edition of the text. Editorial method ↗