Adolf Reinach: An Annotated Bibliography

Abstract

When the present volume was first conceived, it was confidently believed that a survey of the literature on Reinach’s thought could be kept within comfortable limits. It rapidly became clear, however, that this was not the case. Reinach’s discoveries in the sphere of speech act theory have, it is true, gone almost unnoticed. Reinach has nevertheless enjoyed an enduring notoriety among those working in the philosophy of law, and ever since its appearance in 1913, Reinach’s work on “Die apriorischen Grundlagen des bürgerlichen Rechtes” has served as the principal representative of phenomenological, aprioristic and ontological/realist approaches in this discipline. His name accordingly appears in the majority of the more substantial general treatises in the discipline (or at least in those treatises and reference works published in countries whose law and philosophy have been influenced by the Germanic tradition: Edwards’ great Encyclopedia of Philosophy does not contain even a mention of Reinach).