The odyssey of human spirit: Historiography of philosophy in the post-kantian age

In 1791, the Prussian Academy of Sciences published a prize question on the progress of metaphysics since the time of Leibniz and Wolf. To the German philosophers of the time, it was obvious that the question concerned the historical importance of Kant. In the second edition of the Critique of Pure Reason published three years earlier, Kant had complained that metaphysics had thus far lacked any secure progress. His adherents regarded the prize question as an impulse to further ground the revolu