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.
Author(s): Reinier W. Munk
Edition: 1
Year: 2006
Language: English
Pages: 445
TABLE OF CONTENTS......Page 6
PREFACE......Page 8
ABBREVIATIONS......Page 10
INTRODUCTION......Page 13
Cohen and the Marburg School in Context......Page 14
LOGIK......Page 49
Cohen’s Ursprungsdenken......Page 50
Identity and Correlation in Hermann Cohen’s System of Philosophy......Page 75
Beweis and Aufweis: Transcendental a priori and Metaphysical a priori in Cohen’s Neo-Kantianism......Page 105
Notes on Future and History in Hermann Cohen’s Anti-Eschatological Messianism......Page 140
Hanging over the Abyss: On the Relation between Knowledge and Experience in Hermann Cohen and Walter Benjamin......Page 168
ETHIK......Page 198
Jurisprudence is the Organon of Ethics: Kant and Cohen on Ethics, Law, and Religion......Page 199
Hermann Cohen’s Theory of Virtue......Page 237
Hermann Cohen on State and Nation: A Contemporary Review......Page 264
ÄSTHETIK......Page 285
The Portrait in Hermann Cohen’s Aesthetics......Page 286
The Statute of Music in Hermann Cohen’s Ästhetik......Page 310
Critical Idealism and the Concept of Culture: Philosophy of Culture in Hermann Cohen and Ernst Cassirer......Page 329
RELIGION......Page 356
Maimonidean Elements in Hermann Cohen’s Philosophy of Religion......Page 357
Critical Idealism in Hermann Cohen’s Writings on Judaism......Page 371
Cohen on Atonement, Purification and Repentance......Page 395
Suffering and Non-Eschatological Messianism in Hermann Cohen......Page 412
CONTRIBUTORS......Page 428
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J......Page 430
O......Page 431
Y......Page 432
