Bolzano, Kant, and Leibniz

The few decades that extend from the publication of the Critique of Pure Reason (1781) to what some consider the ‘high water mark’ of German Idealism, Hegel’s elaboration of his philosophical system in the Encyclopedia of all philosophical sciences (1817), make for a fascinating period in intellectual history. While it has been extensively studied by scholars of post-Kantian Idealism, this scholarly literature has been, in important respects, …