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The Conflict of the Faculties—Der Streit der Fakultäten

At last this important work of Kant is available in English in its totality. The work has three parts: The Conflict of the Philosophy Faculty with the Theology Faculty (the most considerable of the three parts); The Conflict of the Philosophy Faculty with the Faculty of Law; The Conflict of the Philosophy Faculty with the Faculty of Medicine. Students of Kant who did not have access to the German text except through quotations or excerpts will welcome this publication. They will be especially interested in reading how Kant went beyond his earlier statements on religion as soon as he felt relieved of his personal promise to the King to refrain from publishing anything on the subject of religion. Here we have, moreover, his ’final’ word on matters of religion and Christianity, on the relationship between philosophy and theology, on religious ’sects,’ and indirectly on mysticism. For the Conflict (1798) is the last work Kant published in his lifetime if we except his lectures on anthropology. The English translation by Mary J. Gregor (of York University, Toronto) fortunately offers the German text facing the English. The text of the AkademieAusgabe as established by K. Vorlander in 1917 was retained (with the Gothic script!). The translation itself is precise and elegant; it offers at times useful clarifications and happy formulations. Again it will be said that Kant reads better and is clearer in translation. This time, however, we find the English quite reliable. (An unfortunate typographical error in the ’Bibliographical Note,’ page xxxi, has turned Michel Despland into M. Dupland!) The Introduction by the translator is not only informative on the genesis of the work; it is also a highly entertaining piece of research trying to disentangle the threads of events surrounding the writing and publication of the Conflict and to lay out the problems of censorship that plagued Kant’s career between 1788 and 1798. A plausible sequence of events is reconstructed, and the context of the Conflict is thus concretely clarified. The Introduction deals only briefly with the ideas contained in the text, but the reader can read them for himself. We are grateful to Mary J. Gregor for making this important text available in an excellent edition.