Lectures on anthropology

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General editors' preface; Preface; Abbreviations; General introduction; Pragmatic anthropology; The lecture transcriptions; Anthropology Collins 1772-1773; Translator's introduction; Lecture of the Winter Semester 1772-1773 based on the transcription Collins, Philippi, Hamilton, Brauer, Dohna, Parow, and Euchel; Prolegomena; Treatise; Conditions of taste; Anthropology Parow 1772-1773; Translator's introduction; Lecture of the Winter Semester 1772-1773 based on the transcriptions of Parow, Euchel, Brauer, Hamilton, Philippi, Collins and Dohna; Lectures on Anthropology; Of Character. Anthropology Friedländer 1775-1776Translator's introduction; Lecture of the Winter Semester 1775-1776 based on the transcriptions Friedländer 3.3 (Ms 400), Friedländer 2 (Ms 399) and Prieger; Contents; Preamble; More Specific Treatise on Anthropology; On the Self-centeredness of the Human Being; On the Different Acts of the Soul; On the Obscure Representations of the Soul; On Distinctness; On the Variousness of the Perfection and Imperfection of Cognitions; On the Difference of Sensibility and Relation to the Understanding; On Facility and Difficulty. On Complex, Primitive, and Adhering PerceptionsOn the Senses; On Differences of the Senses, Whether They Are Keen or Fine, Dull or Delicate; Promotion of Sensation and Weakness of the Senses; On Semblance; On Representations, How They Constitute A Difference From One Another Through Dissimilarity, and How the One thereby Illuminates the Other; thus on Contrast, Variety and Contradiction; On the Imagination; The Intensity of the Imagination; On Ingenuity and the Power of Judgment; On Memory; On the Faculty of Composing; Concept of the Poet and of the Art of Poetry. On the State of Human Beings in Sleep or in DreamingOn Foreseeing; On the Faculty of Characterization; On the Upper Faculty of Cognition; On the Use of the Understanding; On the Sickness of the Understanding; On the Use of Reason with Regard to the Practical; The Peculiar Characteristic of Every Head; On Temper; On the Variability of the Desires; On the Object of Inclination; On the Agitations of the Mind; On the Agitations of the Body insofar as They Harmonize With the Agitations of the Mind, thus Arising through Affect; General Observations about the Passions and Affects. Part II. AnthropologyOn Temperament in the Species; On Character in the Species; On the Determination of the Characters of the Nations; On Physiognomy or the Determination of Character in the Human Being; On the Character of Humanity in General; On the Difference of the Two Sexes; On Education; Anthropology Pillau 1777-1778; Translator's introduction; Lecture of the Winter Semester 1777-1778 based on the transcription Pillau; [A] Antropologia. Prolegomena.; Distinction in Cognition of the World; The Utility of Anthropology; Tractatio ipsa