Constantin Rauer
Wahn und Wahrheit Kants: Auseinandersetzung mit dem Irrationalen.
Berlin: Akademie Verlag, 2007. First edition. 9783050043005  377 pages.
Hardcover volume, measuring approximately 6.5" x 10", is like new. With bibliography and name index.
This study presents the psychology and psychiatry of the young Kant, which came into being within the framework of his critical involvement wth the Swedish scholar, mystic and spritist Emanuel von Swedenborg. This involvement is the origin of Kant's critique of madness, in which he analyzes three aspects of schizophrenia: projection, the-splitting-of-the-I ("Ich-Spaltung"), paranoia. The author shows how Kant's early critique of madness reappears in his later critique of reason, and  how, through the application of psychology to logic, what would later be called Kant's "critical turn" came about.