Hermann Cohen's Critical Idealism

by Munk, Reinier

• ISBN13: 9781402040467
• ISBN10: 1402040466
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2006-01-15
• Publisher: Kluwer Academic Pub

Summary

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.

Table of Contents

Preface	vii
Abbreviations	ix
Introduction
Cohen and the Marburg School in Context	3	(38)
Helmut Holzhey
Logik
Cohen's Ursprungsdenken	41	(26)
Werner Flach
Identity and Correlation in Hermann Cohen's System of Philosophy	67	(30)
Reiner Wiehl
Beweis and Aufweis: Transcendental a priori and Metaphysical a priori in Cohen's Neo-Kantianism	97	(36)
Gianna Gigliotti
Notes on Future and History in Hermann Cohen's Anti-Eschatological Messianism	133	(28)
Pierfrancesco Fiorato
Hanging over the Abyss: On the Relation between Knowledge and Experience in Hermann Cohen and Walter Benjamin	161	(32)
Astrid Deuber-Mankowsky
Ethik
Jurisprudence is the Organon of Ethics: Kant and Cohen on Ethics, Law, and Religion	193	(38)
Robert Gibbs
Hermann Cohen's Theory of Virtue	231	(28)
Peter A. Schmid
Hermann Cohen on State and Nation: A Contemporary Review	259	(24)
David Novak
Asthetik
The Portrait in Hermann Cohen's Aesthetics	283	(24)
Andrea Poma
The Statute of Music in Hermann Cohen's Asthetik	307	(20)
Marc de Launay
Critical Idealism and the Concept of Culture: Philosophy of Culture in Hermann Cohen and Ernst Cassirer	327	(30)
Ursula Renz
Religion
Maimonidean Elements in Hermann Cohen's Philosophy of Religion	357	(14)
Arthur Hyman
Critical Idealism in Hermann Cohen's Writings on Judaism	371	(24)
Irene Kajon
Cohen on Atonement, Purification and Repentance	395	(18)
Norman Solomon
Suffering and Non-Eschatological Messianism in Hermann Cohen	413	(16)
Andrea Poma
Contributors	429	(2)
Index	431