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Immanuel Kant and its relation with Literature in general
SITUATION C

that a text A observed by the researcher be a fragment

difficulty

 to gain access to complementary information (for example, that provided by his scientific editor), without the necessity of having at hand the volume in which the fragment has been edited; for instance, the information about R 5037 of Kant.

solution

Fill with "Kant" on the field last name and "5037" on the field title of the search form of documental references and click the button Document Search:



After seeing the results of the search, click information by editor of the respective register R 5037:



The DscD will show you two registers:



Same as the rest of RR, the registers for the R 5037 include:

- indication of the Handbook in which Kant wrote the fragment.
- place of the Handbook in which Kant wrote it.
- place where the Reflexion is located according to its academic edition.
- the catalogue number or numbers belonging to a fragment according to Erdmann’s edition.
- the phase or phases belonging to the Reflexion according to Adickes, joined together with the years included in the same.
- etc.

NB: the DscD has given 2 registers due to both catalogue numbers 55 and 4, according to Erdmann's edition. (This duplication on the registers has been generated to solve the difference).difference).

Further more, this information is integrated in:

1. the intertextual relations network (clicking the respective magnifiers) and
2. information provided by index of the Kant Reflexionen belonging to other RR and connected in different ways to the R 5037 or with any other (just clicking info).
3. the access to Google’s list (clicking, e.g. Baumgarten, Alexander Gottlieb, Metaphysica. Editio IIII, etc. cf. infra).
4. with access to document lists (cf. situation E, example A).

This integration convers the web page from information by editor to an authentic platform of multiple accesses having great power.

Regarding point 1, the user can know the author and the place where the first paragraph of R 5037 is mentioned, without saying the same but quoting R 55 according to Erdmann's numeration. With this purpose, just click the respective yellow magnifier:



The result of the search is:



In addition, the user can also look for the places in which the author quote the following texts:

- R 5037 (Adickes’s numeration) or
- R 4 (Erdmann’s numeration) or
- page 36 in roman numerals of Baumgarten’s Metaphysics.

With respect to point 2 (the information provided by the index of Kant Reflexionen) to gain access to all of them, dated by Adickes that year (dating being secure or not, according to the editor), just click 1776 (initial year of phase u and j) and you can observe approximately 2.755 registers:



You can also access to all Reflexionen lists dated with security the year 1776. Clicking certain, the DscD will show you about 1.300 registers: