АТАНАСИЈЕ СТОЈКОВИЋ О КАНТОВОЈ ФИЛОСОФИЈИ
ATANASIJE STOJKOVIĆ ON KANT’S PHILOSOPHY

Summary/Abstract: Serbian reception of the philosophy of Immanuel Kant (1724–1804) began while the German thinker was still alive, in the last decade of the 18th century. The first to mention him was Gligorije Trlajić in one of his texts from 1793. However, in 1795, Kant’s works were put on the Index of Prohibited Books in the Roman Catholic Habsburg monarchy, and it was forbidden to mention his name. Therefore, one could find his name only in private correspondence, or one could speak about his critical philosophy without mentioning his name. The first who expounded Kant’s philosophemes at length in this manner among Serbs was Atanasije Stojković (1773‒1832). Atanasije Stojković first mentioned Kant’s name in a letter to metropolitan Stefan Stratimirović in 1799, and later he wrote extensively on the philosophy of the German thinker in the novel Kandor, 1800, without mentioning his name, which was first pointed out by Svetislav Marić in 1950. In 1803, Stojković was appointed professor of physics at the University of Kharkov, in the Orthodox Russian Empire, where Kant’s name, of course, was not forbidden. In works published in Russian, Stojković was able to write on Kant’s philosophy without any impediments, which he did. Foreign authors, especially Russian, wrote about this, but this side of Stojković’s creative work has not been explored in our country. In this paper, we will consider the first wider reception of Kant’s philosophy among Serbs, both in Serbian and in Russian writings of Atanasije Stojković.

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