The German school is much in evidence, for the book itself was produced and written in German. The orthodox sort, certainly, would find in his philosophy a pantheistic tendency and they would set about seeking heretical proclivities. But this aspect is of no philosophic interest. In general, the first part of his book is finer than the second, in which are detected the weak sides of his philosophy. S. Frank beautifully and convincingly demonstrates, that knowledge presupposes not the given, but rather the unknown beyond the given, that being and logic itself possess metalogical foundations.
Cognition is directed upon darkness.
Consciousness would seek potentially to contain boundless infinitude. To comprehend the unfathomable is impossible. Yet all the same, S. Frank tries however to show, that the ungraspable is graspable. He wants to surmount rationalistic philosophy. But he too much believes in cognition through the conceptual.