Hermann Cohen (1842-1918) was a prominent German philosopher and Jewish thinker. Within numerous spheres of his wide-ranging activities and interests, he exercised a significant impact on academic, political, and religious life in his time. Marking the centenary of his death in April 2018, this volume explores the multifarious contexts and networks in which Cohen was involved over the course of his life and thought.
Hermann Cohen (1842-1918) was a prominent German philosopher and Jewish thinker. Within numerous spheres of his wide-ranging activities and interests, he exercised a significant impact on academic, political, and religious life in his time. Marking the centenary of his death in April 2018, this volume explores the multifarious contexts and networks in which Cohen was involved over the course of his life and thought.
Table of contents:
Heinrich Assel/Hartwig Wiedebach: Einleitung -
Christoph Schulte: Messianismus ohne Messias -
Torsten Lattki: »Erneuerung und Verjüngung« Benzion Kellermann, Hermann Cohen und das liberale Judentum -
Ulrich Sieg: Cohen und der Linksliberalismus. Die Geschichte einer emphatischen Verbindung -
Heinrich Assel: Cohen und die Luther-Renaissance -
Hartwig Wiedebach: Cohen am Breslauer Rabbinerseminar -
Christian Damböck: Cohens Psychologie zwischen »beschreibender Psychologie« und dem »Gipfel des Systems« -
Lois Rendl: Cohen und Trendelenburg -
Hauke Heidenreich: »Bedenklich und anstößig« - Cohens Interpretation der Postulatenlehre im Kontext von Spiritismus und Materialismus um 1900 -
Cedric Cohen Skalli: Hermann Cohen's Jewish and Imperial politics during World War I -
Robert S. Schine: Hermann Cohen - Der Lehrer aus der Sicht seiner Schüler -
Bernd G. Ulbrich: Robert Fritzsche und Hermann Cohen -
Frederick Beiser: Hermann Cohen's Theory of Sensation -
Kurt Walter Zeidler: Cohen und die Fries'sche Schule -
Pierfrancesco Fiorato: Cohens Theorie der Sprachhandlung im Kontext -
Ezio Gamba: Hermann Cohen and the Aesthetic Debate of his Time -
Kirstin Zeyer: Cohens Cusanus-Forschung - der »eigentliche Entdecker des Cusanus« -
Günter Bader: Creatio ex nihilo bei Cohen -
Rudolf Smend: Cohen und Wellhausen - Anhang:
Siegfried Sinaï Ucko: Hermann Cohen und seine religiöse Lehre, aus dem Hebräischen übersetzt von Simon Lauer.
