Grice e Zubiena

 Pozzo: In a paper published in 1975, Giorgio Tonelli raised the question of the relation between conditions in Königsberg and the making of Kant’s philosophy. Given the prestige of a local tradition of Aristotelian studies, Tonelli proposed that the long survival of Aristotelianism at the Alma Albertina (or Albertus-Universitat, Königsberg) explains ‘Kant’s familiarity with Aristotelian terminology at a time when it was almost completely obsolete, and for its partial revival in the Critique of Pure Reason’ .1 This paper follows Tonelli in highlighting the importance of institutional history for understanding Kant as a philosopher rooted in his university, especially when he is treating academic issues. The paper will present new evid-ence originating in the Albertina to support a re-interpretation of the Streit der Fakultäten2 as a treatise reflecting a stage in which Kant was active as a professor, a dean, and a rector. On the basis of documents scarcely known to Kant scholars, the paper argues that since the time of Karl Rosenkranz the Streit has been generally misinterpreted as presenting a theory of the university.3 In fact, though it does indeed offer a general interpretation of the nature of intellectual conflicts, its focus is the specific setting of Konigsberg, one of the four Prussian universities at the end of the eighteenth century.