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Kantian Journal

2024 Vol. 43. №2

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Kolerov M. A.

Russian Political Kant after Liberalism: Sergey Hessen on 1924 Kant Jubilee

DOI
10.5922/0207-6918-2024-2-5
Pages
152-159
Kant jubilee Sergey Hessen “rule-of-law socialism” Neo-Kantianism in socialism social-liberalism Russian émigré community

Abstract

Using the Kant jubilee in 1924 as a pretext, Sergey Hessen, a Russian émigré neo­Kantian, draws no direct political conclusions but sets forth a view of the great philosopher’s legacy from the position of a “legal socialist”, selecting from his heritage those parts of German socialist doctrines that to his mind experienced a departure from a recent flowering of Kantian ideas in Neo­Kantianism and the collapse of traditional liberalism in the wake of the First World War. The fact that the text was first published in the Berlin­based Russian liberal newspaper “Rul’”, gives us reason to see it not just as a formal jubilee tribute, but as an act addressed to the qualified liberal audience which witnessed  thecollapse of liberalism in Russia.



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