Title: Hermann Cohen's critical idealism /
Authors: Munk, Reinier.
Publisher: Springer,
Year: 2005
Subjects: Cohen, Hermann,; Jewish philosophy.; Philosophy.; Genetic epistemology.; Ethics.; Philosophy, modern.; Philosophy.
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.
Contents: Cohen's Ursprungsdenken / Werner Flach -- Identify and correlation in Hermann Cohen's system of philosophy / Reiner Wiehl -- Beweis and Aufweis : transcendental a priori and metaphysical a priori in Cohen's neo-Kantianism / Gianna Gigliotti -- Notes on future and history in Hermann Cohen's anti-eschatological messianism / Pierfrancesco Fiorato -- Hanging over the abyss : on the relation between knowledge and experience in Hermann Cohen and Walter Benjamin / Astrid Deuber-Mankowsky -- Jurisprudence is the organon of ethics : Kant and Cohen on ethics, law, and religion / Robert Gibbs -- Hermann Cohen's theory of virtue / Peter A. Schmid -- Hermann Cohen on state and nation / David Novak -- The portrait in Hermann Cohen's Aesthetics / Andrea Poma -- The statue of music in Hermann Cohen's Ästhetik / Marc de Launay -- Critical idealism and concept of culture : philosophy of culture in Hermann Cohen and Ernst Cassirer / Ursula Renz -- Maimonidean elements in Hermann Cohen's philosophy of religion / Arthur Hyman -- Critical idealism in Hermann Cohen's writings on Judaism / Irene Kajon -- Cohen on atonement, purification and repentance / Norman Solomon -- Suffering and non-eschatological messianism in Hermann Cohen / Andrea Poma.