Hermann Cohen's Critical Idealism

ISBN-13: 9789048170234 / Angielski / Miękka / 2010 / 436 str.

Reinier W. Munk

Opis

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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From the reviews:

"The essays in this volume, which gathers an impressive group of scholars from around the world, are organized along these focal points of Cohen's system: logic, ethics, aesthetics, and religion. ... will provide a solid introduction for those who want a first glimpse of Cohen's philosophy. It is to be hoped that the present volume will lead to future English-language studies on a philosopher whose wealth of work intersects not only with philosophers, but also with historians, legal scholars, and theologians." (Sebastian Luft, Journal of the History of Philosophy, Vol. 45, October, 2007)

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Preface. Abbreviations. Introduction. Helmut Holzhey: Cohen and the Marburg School in Context. Logik. Werner Flach: Cohen’s Ursprungsdenken. Reiner Wiehl: Identity and Correlation in Hermann Cohen’s System of Philosophy. Gianna Gigliotti: Beweis and Aufweis: Transcendental a priori and Metaphysical a priori in Cohen’s NeoKantianism. Pierfrancesco Fiorato: Notes on Future and History in Hermann Cohen’s Anti-Eschatological Messianism. Astrid DeuberMankowsky: Hanging over the Abyss: On the Relation between Knowledge and Experience in Hermann Cohen and Walter Benjamin. Ethik. Robert Gibbs: Jurisprudence is the Organon of Ethics: Kant and Cohen on Ethics, Law, and Religion. Peter A. Schmid: Hermann Cohen’s Theory of Virtue. David Novak: Hermann Cohen on State and Nation: A Contemporary Review. Ästhetik. Andrea Poma: The Portrait in Hermann Cohen’s Aesthetics. Marc de Launay: The Statute of Music in Hermann Cohen’s Ästhetik. Ursula Renz: Critical Idealism and the Concept of Culture: Philosophy of Culture in Hermann Cohen and Ernst Cassirer. Religion. Arthur Hyman: Maimonidean Elements in Hermann Cohen’s Philosophy of Religion. Irene Kajon: Critical Idealism in Hermann Cohen’s Writings on Judaism. Norman Solomon: Cohen on Atonement, Purification and Repentance. Andrea Poma: Suffering and Non-Eschatological Messianism in Hermann Cohen. Contributors. Index.