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Hermann Cohen's critical idealism
Abstract
Hermann Cohen (1842-1918) is an original systematic thinker and representative of the Marburg School of Critical Idealism. The Marburg School was a leading school in German academic philosophy and in German Jewish philosophy for a period of over thirty years preceding the First World War. Initially standing at the front of the "Return to Kant' movement, Cohen subsequently went beyond Kant in developing a system of critical idealism in which he offered a critique of and alternative to absolute idealism, positivism, and materialism. A critical idealist in heart and soul, Cohen is also recognized as a man who embodied German Jewish culture.
Publications on Cohen in the English language are small in number and this volume aims to fill the gap. It offers an analysis of Cohen's System of Philosophy - the three-volume classic on logic, ethics, and aesthetics - and his writings on Judaism and religion. The book highlights Cohen's contributions in these fields, including his discussions with Maimonides, Leibniz, Kant, and Hegel. It demonstrates the congeniality of Cohen's critical idealism as expounded in the System and his writings on Judaism, and offers an overview of contemporary Cohen research.
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pp.67-96
https://doi.org/10.1007/1-4020-4047-4_3transcendental a priori and metaphysical a priori in cohen's neo-Kantianism
pp.97-131
https://doi.org/10.1007/1-4020-4047-4_4pp.133-160
https://doi.org/10.1007/1-4020-4047-4_5pp.307-325
https://doi.org/10.1007/1-4020-4047-4_11philosophy of culture in Hermann Cohen and Ernst Cassirer
pp.327-353
https://doi.org/10.1007/1-4020-4047-4_12pp.357-370
https://doi.org/10.1007/1-4020-4047-4_13Publication details
Publisher: Springer
Place: Dordrecht
Year: 2005
Pages: 435
Series: Amsterdam Studies in Jewish Thought
Series volume: 10
ISBN (hardback): 978-1-4020-4046-7
ISBN (digital): 978-1-4020-4047-4
Full citation:
Munk Reinier (2005) Hermann Cohen's critical idealism. Dordrecht, Springer.