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PETER LYON GIVES A REVIEW OF SHRIDATH SURENDRANATH RAMPHAL'S BOOK: INSEPERABLE HUMANITY: AN ANTHOLOGY OF REFLECTIONS OF SHRIDATH RAMPHAL. IT OUTLINES MANY OF THE SPEECHES AND WRITINGS OF THE 15-YEAR SECRETARY GENERAL OF THE COMMONWEALTH. THE EMPHASIS IS ON THE CARIBBEAN, BUT RAMPHAL ALSO DISCUSSES SUCH VARIOUS TOPICS AS APARTHEID AND POVERTY.

Formerly CIP Uk. - Includes bibliographical references and index. - Introduction / Rudolf A. Makkreel and Sebastian Luft -- Phenomenology, hermeneutics, and neo-kantianism -- Neo-kantianism and phenomenology : the problem of intuition / Helmut Holzhey -- The hermeneutics of perception in Cassirer, Heidegger, and Husserl / Rudolf Bernet -- Reconstruction and reduction : Natorp and Husserl on method and the question of subjectivity / Sebastian Luft -- The neo-kantian heritage in Gadamer / Jean Grondin -- The nature of transcendental philosophy -- Interpreting Kant correctly : on the Kant of the neo-kantians / Manfred Kühn -- The highest principle and the principle of origin in Hermann Cohen's theoretical philosophy / Jürgen Stolzenberg -- Transcendental logic and minimal empiricism : Lask and McDowell on the unboundedness of the conceptual / Steven G. Crowell -- The neo-kantians and the sciences -- Ernst Cassirer and Thomas Kuhn : the neo-kantian tradition in the history and philosophy of science / Michael Friedman -- To reach for metaphysics : Mile Boutroux's philosophy of science / Fabien Capeillères -- History, culture, and value -- Wilhelm Dilthey and the neo-kantians : on the conceptual distinctions between Geisteswissenschaften and Kulturwissenschaften / Rudolf A. Makkreel -- The multiplicity of virtues and the problem of unity in Hermann Cohen's ethics and philosophy of religion / Reiner Wiehl -- Is Cassirer a neo-kantian methodologically speaking? / Massimo Ferrari

After the demise of German Idealism, Neo-Kantianism flourished as the defining philosophical movement of Continental Europe from the 1860s until the Weimar Republic. This collection of new essays by distinguished scholars offers a fresh examination of the many and enduring contributions that Neo-Kantianism has made to a diverse range of philosophical subjects. The essays discuss classical figures and themes, including the Marburg and Southwestern Schools, Cohen, Cassirer, Rickert, and Natorp's psychology. In addition they examine lesser-known topics, including the Neo-Kantian influence on theory of law, Husserlian phenomenology, Simmel's study of Rembrandt, Cassirer's philosophy of science, Cohen's philosophy of religion in relation to Rawls and Habermas, and Rickert's theory of number. This rich exploration of a major philosophical movement will interest scholars and upper-level students of Kant, twentieth-century philosophy, continental philosophy, sociology, and psychology.

Neo-Kantianism was an important movement in German philosophy of the late 19th century: Frederick Beiser traces its development back to the late 18th century, and explains its rise as a response to three major developments in German culture: the collapse of speculative idealism; the materialism controversy; and the identity crisis of philosophy.

This article explores the development of continental philosophy of critical transcendentalism after World War II. The intention to interpret Kant's transcendentalism corresponds both to the demand to establish feasibility and necessity of conclusive rational grounds for the validity of our cognition and to the need to legitimise the claim of philosophy to be irrefutable in the justification of its principles. While resisting attempts to find the basis for the determination of reason outside the reason itself, post-neo-Kantian continental transcendentalism also rejects the voluntarist scheme of the constructive relation of reason to the external environment. This approach implies the emergence of philosophical projects that offer alternatives to the postmodernist relativisation of philosophical results and to the skepticism that emerges within that framework.

This essay explores the development of Georg Simmel's interpretation of Immanuel Kant's philosophy in the context of neo-Kantianism and its preoccupation with the question of unity in modern diversity. It argues that the neo-Kantian movement can be divided into two periods: in the first, unity was addressed with regard to Kant's epistemology; in the second period, the main issue was the overall coherence of Kantian teaching. Simmel, who belonged to the younger generation of neo-Kantians, absorbed the conclusions of the previous generation that purged Kantian epistemology from its metaphysical foundations related to the noumenal world. Yet he did not share the views of his peers who considered Kant to be the philosopher of cultural plurality. On the contrary, he argued that Kant's system is thoroughly intellectualistic, and that ethics, aesthetics and religion within it are subordinated to logic. At the same time, his own philosophy presupposed cultural plurality akin to that of other neo-Kantians. In other words, Simmel abandoned Kant in order to develop his own version of neo-Kantianism.

"This volume considers the exchange between the Neo-Kantian tradition in German philosophy and the sciences from the last third of the nineteenth century to the Great war and partly beyond. During this period, various scientific disciplines underwent modernisation processes characterised by an increasing empirical inclination and a decline in the influence of metaphysics, the pluralisation of theories, and the historical and pragmatic revitalisation of scientific claims against philosophy. The various contributions look at the ways in which a certain 'Kantian orthodoxy' was influenced by these new developments and whether (and how) itself had some impact on the development of the sciences. The volume is not limited to the 'exact sciences' of mathematics and physics, which are particularly important for the Kantian tradition, but also takes into account less recognised disciplines such as biology, chemistry, technology and psychology. It is complemented by contributions that contrast Neo-Kantianism with other 'scientific philosophies' of the period in question"--