Overview

The world of Kant's scholarship was ellectrified in 1974, when Giorgio Tonelli presented a brief summary of his life's work. This was a meticulous study: the plethora of sources shaping Kant's world, particulary the nature of scope of logic. Tonelli found widely held interpretations of Kant to be inadequate, even wrong. At the end of that brief summary, given at the Fourth International Kant Congress in Mainz, Tonelli promised to publish a book with the detailed justification for this rethinking of Kant. Here is that book. Tragically Tonelli's life was cut short. Though he had hoped to include more chapters, the evidence Tonelli provides is ample in the three he was able to complete. Kant scholars will find it necessary to reconsider received interpretations and assumptions in light of this ground-breaking work.