FedOAPress - Studies in Neo-Kantianism

Publisher: FedOA - Federico II University Press

Series: Studies in Neo-Kantianism

Series editors: Giovanni Morrone (Università della Campania “L. Vanvitelli”), Roberto Redaelli (Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg)

Scientific Committee: Stefano Besoli (Università di Bologna), Giuseppe D’Anna (Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore di Milano), Riccardo De Biase (Università degli Studi di Napoli Federico II), Carmine Di Martino (Università degli Studi di Milano), Anna Donise (Università degli Studi di Napoli Federico II), Luca Guidetti (Università di Bologna), Andreas Funke (Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg), Christian Krijnen (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam), Sebastian Luft (Marquette University), Felice Masi (Università degli Studi di Napoli Federico II), Edoardo Massimilla (Università degli Studi di Napoli Federico II), Peter-Ulrich Merz-Benz (Universität Zürich), Domenico Spinosa (Università degli Studi dell’Aquila), Andrea Staiti (Università di Parma), Jing Zhao (Beijing Huagong University)

Editorial staff: Sabato Danzilli (Università di Catania), Ivana Brigida D’Avanzo (Università di Perugia)

Languages: Italian, English, French, German, Spanish

Topic and Contents of the Book Series: Following the post-idealist identity crisis and the advent of nihilism, which dominated the European cultural scene after the fall of the great systems of thought, philosophy underwent a decisive transformation under the impetus of a movement that rallied its best minds around the famous call “zurück zu Kant!”. This call had first been uttered by Eduard Zeller and then resounded throughout Europe, and soon found its place in the strongholds of scholarship which were the Universities of Heidelberg, Freiburg and Marburg, where various schools of thought took shape, united by the intention to meet the intellectual challenges of the present day with renewed forms of criticism. Prominent representatives of these schools, among them Windelband, Rickert and Lask in the Baden school, Natorp, Cohen and Cassirer in the Marburg school to name only the most famous, sparked a radical redefinition of the European philosophical and cultural scene in the 20th century and impacted disparate fields of study: from the theory of knowledge to aesthetics, from
anthropology to the doctrine of values, the breadth of the horizons unlocked by the work of these
authors became a cardinal reference point for successive generations of philosophers. The crucial
role that this movement played in the genesis and development of twentieth-century philosophical
thought is examined in the series Studies in Neo-Kantianism, whose goal is to provide an
international platform for contributions from leading scholars in this current. Specifically, the series
aims to collect historical-philosophical studies written in the major European languages with the
purpose of investigating the multiple forms that neo-Kantianism has assumed, while remaining
open to the thematization of the impact of this school of thought on the methods of the various
cultural sciences, without excluding from its scope more explicitly theoretical works that highlight
the contemporary relevance of certain issues raised by this current. The series also intends to
include editions and translations of classic Neo-Kantian texts. In this mission, the series has a clear
international vocation, strengthened by the collaboration with the Centre for Studies in Neo-
Kantianism at the Friedrich-Alexander-Universität in Erlangen-Nürnberg. In keeping with the work
of investigation and dissemination promoted by the research centre, the series seeks to restore the
spirit of Neo-Kantianism by bringing together specialised works that are the fruit of international
collaboration between leading scholars in this current of thought.