Between Criticism and Dialectic. On the Revival of Hegelianism in the Southwestern Neo-Kantian School

Sabato Danzilli

doi:10.6093/978-88-6887-408-7

Between Criticism and Dialectic. On the Revival of Hegelianism in the Southwestern Neo-Kantian School

Authors

Sabato Danzilli

University of Catania

https://orcid.org/0009-0009-9655-0798

DOI: https://doi.org/10.6093/978-88-6887-408-7

Keywords:

Neo-Kantianism, Values, Logic, history of philosophy, Dialectic

Synopsis

Publisher: FedOA - Federico II University Press

Series: Studies in Neo-Kantianism

Pages: 378

Language: Italian

Abstract: The volume examines the revival of Hegelianism within the Southwestern Neo-Kantian School as an inner outcome of the Neo-Kantian project of a logic of history. Through the work of Wilhelm Windelband, it reconstructs the long trajectory that leads from Kuno Fischer to Richard Kroner—from the theory of values to the philosophy of culture—culminating in the Hegel-Renaissance of Heidelberg, where Hegel's specter reemerges, against neo‑critical resistance, as a conceptual instrument capable of reconciling validity and history. The failure of "cultural idealism," shattered by the catastrophe of the World War and its sociocultural aftermath, marks the return to Hegel as both a last speculative attempt at redemption and a symptom of the twilight of Wilhelmine German philosophy. The book shows how current debates on relativism, the historicity of rationality, and the relation between the natural and cultural sciences echo the Neo-Kantian attempt to formulate a logic of historical knowledge.

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Author Biography

Sabato Danzilli, University of Catania

Sabato Danzilli holds a joint Ph.D. from the Universities of Catania and Heidelberg, with a dissertation on the relations between Southwestern Neo-Kantianism and the revival of Hegelianism. He serves as adjunct lecturer in the history of philosophy at the University of Campania “Luigi Vanvitelli” and teaches philosophy and history at the secondary level. He has published essays on Windelband, Kroner, Fischer, Lukács, and Engels.