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Form und Materie des Erkennens in der Transzendentalen Æsthetik. by Felix GrossReview by: Emil C. WilmThe Philosophical Review, Vol. 20, No. 1 (Jan., 1911), p. 95Published by: Duke University Press on behalf of Philosophical ReviewStable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/2177286 .

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No. I.] NOTICES OF NEW BOOKS. 95

Schillers philosophische Schriften und Gedichte (Auswahl). Zur Einffihrung in seine Weltanschauung. Mit ausfiihrlicher Einleitung herausgegeben von EUGEN KUHNEMANN. Leipzig, Verlag der Dfirr'schen Buchandlung, i9io.

-PP. 438. The first edition of Professor Kuhnemann's book of selections from Schiller's

philosophical writings was published in I902, and was discussed in the PHILo_

SOPHICAL REVIEW for November, 1904. The present second edition will accord- ingly require little comment. The first edition met with a more cordial recep- tion from the general audience of Schiller lovers than from the schools, for which it was originally intended. The present book has accordingly been expanded by including selections which will prove useful to a general audience of culti- vated readers. The extensive Introduction of 90 pages is reprinted without change, but to the original list of selections are added the essay, Von den not- wendigen Grenzen des Schinen, and the entire collection of the Briefe uiber die cesthetische Erziehung des Menschen, instead of the original collection of nine. The number of the Votivtafeln has also been almost doubled. The reader interested in the development of Schiller's reflective thought would probably have welcomed some selections from the early medical essays, which are interesting both for themselves and for the anticipations there of a number of Schiller's later and most characteristic ideas. The volume is supplied with a useful index of names and topics.

EMIL C. WILM. WASHBURN COLLEGE.

Form und Materie des Erkennens in der transzendentazen Esthetik. Eine erkenntnistheoretische Untersuchung. Von FELIX GROSS. Leipzig, Ver- lag von Johann Ambrosius Barth, i9io.-pp. ioo.

This is an attempt to show, by a rather circumstantial examination of Kant's

theory of space and time, as contained in the Dissertation, the first Critique, and the Prolegomena, that the Kantian doctrine of space and time, as pure intuitions, is untenable, and that its untenability is due to the backward state

of psychology in Kant's day, which did not recognize specific space and time sensations. Space and time experiences through the special senses do indeed presuppose space and time, as Kant held; but this does not argue that space and time have an extra-experiential origin. They arise in connection with organic, especially muscular, sensations, and are therefore original endowment only in

the sense that they are bound to arise as soon as the infant can experience organic sensations. We do not dispose sensations in previously existing space and time; we have experiences of space and time. The theory of specific space and time sensations enables us to explain sundry phenomena inexplicable on the Kantian theory, such as the applicability of the category of space to external objects only, the tri-dimensional character of space, and symmetry.

There are occasional errors, typographical and other, such as p. IO, 1. I4; P. I2, 1. 35; p. I6, 1. 3I; p. 6I, 1. II. A good index of names and subjects con- cludes the volume.

EMIL C. WILM. WASHBURN COLLEGE.

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