The conservative face of a radical Kantian in Prussia and Russia: the case of Ludwig Heinrich von Jakob (1759-1827).

From: Germano-Slavica | Date: January 1, 2002| Author: Walker, Franklin A. | Copyright information

In inviting the Halle Kantian Ludwig Heinrich Jakob to Kharkov University in 1805, the reform-minded government of Tsar Alexander I (1801-1825) affirmed its readiness to associate the autocracy with what would come to be understood as liberal ideals. Jakob's Russian career began as a political economist, who in 1809 gave up the classroom for the St. Petersburg bureaucracy. He resumed his role as a philosopher, however, through the publication of philosophical textbooks in Russian. ...

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