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Hermann Cohen's Critical Idealism

Author : Reinier W. Munk
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 1402040474
Total Pages : 433 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (2 download)

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Download or read book Hermann Cohen's Critical Idealism written by Reinier W. Munk and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2006-07-19 with total page 433 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

The Critical Philosophy of Hermann Cohen

Author : Andrea Poma
Publisher : State University of New York Press
ISBN 13 : 1438416296
Total Pages : 338 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (384 download)

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Download or read book The Critical Philosophy of Hermann Cohen written by Andrea Poma and published by State University of New York Press. This book was released on 2012-02-01 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a translation of Andrea Poma's La filosofia critica di Hermann Cohen, which first appeared in 1988. During the second half of the nineteenth century, the German philosophical scene had witnessed the extinction of absolute idealism and the predominance of the naive materialism of the adherents of scientism. Hermann Cohen's philosophy stood out in favor of the value of critical reason, on which scientific idealism, in the form of a revival of authentic rational idealism, is founded. His standpoint rejected the opposite extremes of both absolute idealism and naive materialism. The Marburg school, one of the great German philosophical schools at the turn of the century, grew out of Cohen's philosophy, which inspired a large number of twentieth-century thinkers. Cohen was, without doubt, one of the principal adherents of the "return to Kant" as a fundamental point of reference of "Critical Idealism." He based this revival on a long, historical, philosophical tradition, represented by Plato, Descartes, Leibniz, and others, apart from Kant himself. Although Cohen saw himself as Kant's heir, he went beyond Kant in his development and deepening of the meaning of critical philosophy in his own philosophical system. He followed an original path, which revealed a great deal of the hitherto concealed potential of this type of philosophy. In his later years Cohen turned his attention mainly to the philosophy of religion, but his last works are not simply what would be termed the Summa theologica of contemporary Judaism. They also belong to a continuous line connecting them to his previous thought, deepening the meaning and extending the potentiality of critical philosophy and its connection to religious problems, satisfactorily developing the aspect of thought on the limit of reason, which, for critical philosophy, is a necessary complement to thought within the limits of reason.

Yearning for Form and Other Essays on Hermann Cohen's Thought

Author : Andrea Poma
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 9781402038778
Total Pages : 410 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (387 download)

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Hermann Cohen

Author : Frederick C. Beiser
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 0198828160
Total Pages : 400 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (988 download)

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Download or read book Hermann Cohen written by Frederick C. Beiser and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2018-10-18 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is the first complete intellectual biography of Hermann Cohen (1842-1918) and the only work to cover all his major philosophical and Jewish writings. Frederick C. Beiser pays special attention to all phases of Cohen's intellectual development, its breaks and its continuities, throughout seven decades. The guiding goal behind Cohen's intellectual career, he argues, was the development of a radical rationalism, one committed to defending the rights of unending enquiry and unlimited criticism. Cohen's philosophy was therefore an attempt to defend and revive the Enlightenment belief in the authority of reason; his critical idealism an attempt to justify this belief and to establish a purely rational worldview. According to this interpretation, Cohen's thought is resolutely opposed to any form of irrationalism or mysticism because these would impose arbitrary and artificial limits on criticism and enquiry. It is therefore critical of those interpretations which see Cohen's philosophy as a species of proto-existentialism (Rosenzweig) or Jewish mysticism (Adelmann and Kohnke). Hermann Cohen: An Intellectual Biography attempts to unify the two sides of Cohen's thought, his philosophy and his Judaism. Maintaining that Cohen's Judaism was not a limit to his radical rationalism but a consistent development of it, Beiser contends that his religion was one of reason. He concludes that most critical interpretations have failed to appreciate the philosophical depth and sophistication of his Judaism, a religion which committed the believer to the unending search for truth and the striving to achieve the cosmopolitan ideals of reason.

Hermann Cohen

Author : Frederick C. Beiser
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0192563246
Total Pages : 416 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (925 download)

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Download or read book Hermann Cohen written by Frederick C. Beiser and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2018-11-10 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is the first complete intellectual biography of Hermann Cohen (1842-1918) and the only work to cover all his major philosophical and Jewish writings. Frederick C. Beiser pays special attention to all phases of Cohen's intellectual development, its breaks and its continuities, throughout seven decades. The guiding goal behind Cohen's intellectual career, he argues, was the development of a radical rationalism, one committed to defending the rights of unending enquiry and unlimited criticism. Cohen's philosophy was therefore an attempt to defend and revive the Enlightenment belief in the authority of reason; his critical idealism an attempt to justify this belief and to establish a purely rational worldview. According to this interpretation, Cohen's thought is resolutely opposed to any form of irrationalism or mysticism because these would impose arbitrary and artificial limits on criticism and enquiry. It is therefore critical of those interpretations which see Cohen's philosophy as a species of proto-existentialism (Rosenzweig) or Jewish mysticism (Adelmann and Köhnke). Hermann Cohen: An Intellectual Biography attempts to unify the two sides of Cohen's thought, his philosophy and his Judaism. Maintaining that Cohen's Judaism was not a limit to his radical rationalism but a consistent development of it, Beiser contends that his religion was one of reason. He concludes that most critical interpretations have failed to appreciate the philosophical depth and sophistication of his Judaism, a religion which committed the believer to the unending search for truth and the striving to achieve the cosmopolitan ideals of reason.

The Tragedy of Optimism

Author : Steven S. Schwarzschild
Publisher : SUNY Press
ISBN 13 : 1438468350
Total Pages : 337 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (384 download)

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Download or read book The Tragedy of Optimism written by Steven S. Schwarzschild and published by SUNY Press. This book was released on 2018-01-29 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Complete collection of Schwarzschilds essays on the neo-Kantian Jewish philosopher Hermann Cohen. Steven S. Schwarzschild (19241989) was arguably the leading expositor of German-Jewish philosopher Hermann Cohen (18421918), undertaking a lifelong effort to reintroduce Cohens thought into contemporary philosophical discourse. In The Tragedy of Optimism, George Y. Kohler brings together all of Schwarzschilds work on Cohen for the first time. Schwarzschilds readings of Cohen are unique and profound; he was conversant with both worlds that shaped Cohens thought, neo-Kantian German idealism and Jewish theology. The collection covers a wide range of subjects, from ethics, socialism, the concept of human selfhood, and the mathematics of the infinite to more explicitly Jewish themes. This volume includes two of Schwarzschilds previously unpublished manuscripts and a scholarly introduction by Kohler. Schwarzschild shows that despite its seeming defeat by events of the twentieth century, Cohens optimism about human progress is a rational, indeed necessary, path to peace. The Tragedy of Optimism gives us excellentperhaps unparalleledinsight into the thought of Hermann Cohen. Although Cohen was one of the most important thinkers in the history of Jewish philosophy, he is often misread or simply ignored. Schwarzschild shows in painstaking fashion why the standard criticisms of Cohen miss the point. What emerges is a picture of Cohen as a more sophisticated thinker than what we usually get in histories of the period. Kenneth Seeskin, author of Autonomy in Jewish Philosophy

Cadenzas

Author : Andrea Poma
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3319528122
Total Pages : 244 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (195 download)

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Download or read book Cadenzas written by Andrea Poma and published by Springer. This book was released on 2017-04-24 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines the concepts behind a philosophical project on postmodernism: the social and cultural condition of our time, the age of the achieved capitalism. It proposes an original theory of postmodern humanism based on the absence of form and describes the development of philosophical thought as a musical “cadenza” that produces meaning in the empty space between the past of the modern and the future of the postmodern. The book focuses on three main postmodernist themes: the denial of identity and the assertion of the differences, the shattered subject, and the absence of teleology in history and politics.

Hermann Cohen's Ethics

Author : Robert Gibbs
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 904741067X
Total Pages : 274 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (474 download)

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Download or read book Hermann Cohen's Ethics written by Robert Gibbs and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2006-07-01 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Through explorations of Hermann Cohen’s Ethics of Pure Will, an international set of scholars opens questions both about the text itself and about the relation of ethics and the Jewish tradition. Originally published as Volume 13 (2005) of The Journal of Jewish Thought and Philosophy.

Hermann Cohen and the Crisis of Liberalism

Author : Paul E. Nahme
Publisher : Indiana University Press
ISBN 13 : 0253039762
Total Pages : 342 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (53 download)

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Download or read book Hermann Cohen and the Crisis of Liberalism written by Paul E. Nahme and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 2019-03-28 with total page 342 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hermann Cohen (1842–1918) is often held to be one of the most important Jewish philosophers of the nineteenth century. Paul E. Nahme, in this new consideration of Cohen, liberalism, and religion, emphasizes the idea of enchantment, or the faith in and commitment to ideas, reason, and critique—the animating spirits that move society forward. Nahme views Cohen through the lenses of the crises of Imperial Germany—the rise of antisemitism, nationalism, and secularization—to come to a greater understanding of liberalism, its Protestant and Jewish roots, and the spirits of modernity and tradition that form its foundation. Nahme’s philosophical and historical retelling of the story of Cohen and his spiritual investment in liberal theology present a strong argument for religious pluralism and public reason in a world rife with populism, identity politics, and conspiracy theories.

Reading Maimonides' Philosophy in 19th Century Germany

Author : George Y. Kohler
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 9400740352
Total Pages : 375 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (7 download)

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Book Synopsis Reading Maimonides' Philosophy in 19th Century Germany by : George Y. Kohler

Download or read book Reading Maimonides' Philosophy in 19th Century Germany written by George Y. Kohler and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-05-03 with total page 375 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book investigates the re-discovery of Maimonides’ Guide of the Perplexed by the Wissenschaft des Judentums movement in Germany of the nineteenth and beginning twentieth Germany. Since this movement is inseparably connected with religious reforms that took place at about the same time, it shall be demonstrated how the Reform Movement in Judaism used the Guide for its own agenda of historizing, rationalizing and finally turning Judaism into a philosophical enterprise of ‘ethical monotheism’. The study follows the reception of Maimonidean thought, and the Guide specifically, through the nineteenth century, from the first beginnings of early reformers in 1810 and their reading of Maimonides to the development of a sophisticated reform-theology, based on Maimonides, in the writings of Hermann Cohen more then a hundred years later.

The National Element in Hermann Cohen's Philosophy and Religion

Author : Hartwig Wiedebach
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004232605
Total Pages : 275 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (42 download)

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Download or read book The National Element in Hermann Cohen's Philosophy and Religion written by Hartwig Wiedebach and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2012-07-05 with total page 275 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hermann Cohen was a Jewish-German thinker with a passion for philosophy. Two forms of national engagement influenced his philosophical system and his Jewish thought: a cultural-political 'Germanness' (Deutschtum) and a religious Judaism beyond the political.

Ethics of Maimonides

Author : Hermann Cohen
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 312 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Ethics of Maimonides written by Hermann Cohen and published by . This book was released on 2004-03-18 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hermann Cohen’s essay on Maimonides’ ethics is one of the most fundamental texts of twentieth-century Jewish philosophy, correlating Platonic, prophetic, Maimonidean, and Kantian traditions. Almut Sh. Bruckstein provides the first English translation and her own extensive commentary on this landmark 1908 work, which inspired readings of medieval and rabbinic sources by Leo Strauss, Franz Rosenzweig, and Emmanuel Levinas. Cohen rejects the notion that we should try to understand texts of the past solely in the context of their own historical era. Subverting the historical order, he interprets the ethical meanings of texts in the light of a future yet to be realized. He commits the entire Jewish tradition to a universal socialism prophetically inspired by ideals of humanity, peace, and universal justice. Through her own probing commentary on Cohen’s text, like the margin notes of a medieval treatise, Bruckstein performs the hermeneutical act that lies at the core of Cohen’s argument: she reads Jewish sources from a perspective that recognizes the interpretive act of commentary itself.

Monotheism and Tolerance

Author : Robert Erlewine
Publisher : Indiana University Press
ISBN 13 : 0253221560
Total Pages : 259 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (532 download)

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Download or read book Monotheism and Tolerance written by Robert Erlewine and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 2010-01-11 with total page 259 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Monotheism and Tolerance suggests a way to deal with the intractable problem of religiously motivated and justified violence.

Yearning for Form and Other Essays on Hermann Cohen's Thought

Author : Andrea Poma
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 140203878X
Total Pages : 393 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (2 download)

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Download or read book Yearning for Form and Other Essays on Hermann Cohen's Thought written by Andrea Poma and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2006-06-29 with total page 393 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hermann Cohen’s philosophy has now, finally, received the recognition it deserves. His thought undoubtedly has all the characteristics of a classic. It faced the great problems of philosophical tradition, with full critical awareness and at the same time, with the capacity to open up new, original routes. It represents one of the last expressions of great systematic thought. The papers collected in this volume deal with different aspects of Cohen’s thought, ethical, political, aesthetic and religious aspectsin particular. However they all represent attempts to follow the ubiquitous presence of certain important themes in Cohen and their capacity for containing meanings that cannot be limited to a single philosophical sphere: themes that are keys to reading unity of inspiration in his thought, which is more deeply imbedded than the exterior architectural unity of his work. The search for the fundamental themes behind Cohen is an important task, if we wish to see this philosopher as a present-day vital point of reference.

Lament in Jewish Thought

Author : Ilit Ferber
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN 13 : 3110395312
Total Pages : 370 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (13 download)

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Download or read book Lament in Jewish Thought written by Ilit Ferber and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2014-10-10 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lament, mourning, and the transmissibility of a tradition in the aftermath of destruction are prominent themes in Jewish thought. The corpus of lament literature, building upon and transforming the biblical Book of Lamentations, provides a unique lens for thinking about the relationships between destruction and renewal, mourning and remembrance, loss and redemption, expression and the inexpressible. This anthology features four texts by Gershom Scholem on lament, translated here for the first time into English. The volume also includes original essays by leading scholars, which interpret Scholem’s texts and situate them in relation to other Weimar-era Jewish thinkers, including Walter Benjamin, Franz Rosenzweig, Franz Kafka, and Paul Celan, who drew on the textual traditions of lament to respond to the destruction and upheavals of the early twentieth century. Also included are studies on the textual tradition of lament in Judaism, from biblical, rabbinic, and medieval lamentations to contemporary Yemenite women’s laments. This collection, unified by its strong thematic focus on lament, shows the fruitfulness of studying contemporary and modern texts alongside the traditional textual sources that informed them.

Paradox and the Prophets

Author : Daniel H. Weiss
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199895902
Total Pages : 350 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (998 download)

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Download or read book Paradox and the Prophets written by Daniel H. Weiss and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2012-06-21 with total page 350 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Weiss examines the style and method of Hermann Cohen's magnum opus, Religion of Reason out of the Sources of Judaism. Through philosophical and scriptural analyses, Weiss argues for a new reading of this long-misunderstood book, demonstrating Cohen's continuing significance for Jewish thought and for philosophy of religion more broadly.

Hermann Cohen and the Crisis of Liberalism

Author : Paul Egan Nahme
Publisher : Indiana University Press
ISBN 13 : 0253039789
Total Pages : 340 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (53 download)

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Download or read book Hermann Cohen and the Crisis of Liberalism written by Paul Egan Nahme and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 2019-03-28 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hermann Cohen (1842–1918) is often held to be one of the most important Jewish philosophers of the nineteenth century. Paul E. Nahme, in this new consideration of Cohen, liberalism, and religion, emphasizes the idea of enchantment, or the faith in and commitment to ideas, reason, and critique—the animating spirits that move society forward. Nahme views Cohen through the lenses of the crises of Imperial Germany—the rise of antisemitism, nationalism, and secularization—to come to a greater understanding of liberalism, its Protestant and Jewish roots, and the spirits of modernity and tradition that form its foundation. Nahme's philosophical and historical retelling of the story of Cohen and his spiritual investment in liberal theology present a strong argument for religious pluralism and public reason in a world rife with populism, identity politics, and conspiracy theories.