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 Schwarzschild shows in painstaking fashion why the standard criticisms of Cohen miss the point. Although Cohen was one of the most important thinkers in the history of Jewish philosophy, he is often misread or simply ignored. “The Tragedy of Optimism gives us excellent-perhaps unparalleled-insight into the thought of Hermann Cohen. Schwarzschild shows that despite its seeming defeat by events of the twentieth century, Cohen’s optimism about human progress is a rational, indeed necessary, path to peace. This volume includes two of Schwarzschild’s previously unpublished manuscripts and a scholarly introduction by Kohler. 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. Schwarzschild’s readings of Cohen are unique and profound he was conversant with both worlds that shaped Cohen’s thought, neo-Kantian German idealism and Jewish theology. Kohler brings together all of Schwarzschild’s work on Cohen for the first time. Schwarzschild (1924–1989) was arguably the leading expositor of German-Jewish philosopher Hermann Cohen (1842–1918), undertaking a lifelong effort to reintroduce Cohen’s thought into contemporary philosophical discourse. We only index and link to content provided by other sites.Ĭomplete collection of Schwarzschild’s essays on the neo-Kantian Jewish philosopher Hermann Cohen. Disclaimer: This site does not store any files on its server.
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