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The Question of Normativity in Emil Lask’s Philosophy of Right

Before Emil Lask wrote The Logic of Philosophy (1911) he outlined the main theses of his future philosophical project in The Philosophy of Right (1905): critique of the “two worlds theory”, the problem of pre-reflective cognition, the emphasis on the role of “pre-scientific” pre-theoretical reality. But how, according to Lask, does the transition from “pre-legal” to “legal” reality take place? The Philosophy of Right criticises the “two worlds theory”, interpreted in the spirit of Platonism, as a...

Semyon Frank and the German Neo-Kantianism: Aspects of Debate

The widespread assessment of the early period of Semyon L. Frank’s work as being influenced by German Neo-Kantianism is in need of a critical scrutiny. There are several reasons why the Russian philosopher’s interest in Neo-Kantianism merits a closer look. First, two systemic theories belonging to different trends exerted a decisive influence on Russian philosophy in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries: German Neo-Kantianism and Vladimir Solovyov’s school of all-unity. Second, Frank...

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

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 ...

Fichte’s Ideas in the Philosophical Doctrines of Russian Neo-Kantians

... Ivanenko, A. A., 2013. Das Problem der veränderten Lehre in der russischen Fichte-Forschung. Fichte-Studien, 38(1), pp. 249-256. https://doi.org/10.5840/fichte20133815 Kornilaev, L. Yu., 2022. The Image of Fichte’s Philosophy in German Neo-Kantianism. Kantian Journal, 41(4), pp. 76-93. Krotkow, W., 2013. Fichtes Einfluss auf die Konzeption des absoluten Realismus von S. L. Frank (philosophisch-politischer Blick). Fichte-Studien, 38(1), pp. 271-275. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/18795811_03801019 Lanz,...