Hermann Cohen’s Critical Idealism

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Munk, Reinier (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands, 2005.
• Series: Amsterdam Studies in Jewish Thought ; 10
• Subjects: Philosophy.; Epistemology.; Ethics.; Modern philosophy.; Religion > Philosophy.; History of Philosophy.; Modern Philosophy.; Philosophy of Religion.

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...

Table of Contents:

• Cohen and the Marburg School in Context
• Logik
• Cohen’s Ursprungsdenken
• Identity and Correlation in Hermann Cohen’S System of Philosophy
• Beweis and Aufweis: Transcendental a priori and metaphysical a priori in Cohen’s neo-Kantianism
• Notes on Future and History in Hermann Cohen’s Anti-Eschatological Messianism
• Hanging Over the Abyss
• Ethik
• Jurisprudence is the Organon of Ethics
• Hermann Cohen’s Theory of Virtue
• Hermann Cohen on State and Nation
• Ästhetik
• The Portrait in Hermann Cohen’s Aesthetics
• The Statute of Music in Hermann Cohen’s Ästhetik
• Critical Idealism and the Concept of Culture: Philosophy of culture in Hermann Cohen and Ernst Cassirer
• Religion
• Maimonidean Elements in Hermann Cohen’s Philosophy of Religion
• Critical Idealism in Hermann Cohen’s Writings on Judaism
• Cohen on Atonement, Purification and Repentance
• Suffering and Non-Eschatological Messianism in Hermann Cohen.