Seminar “German and Russian Neo-Kantianism”

In the modern rethinking of neo-Kantian history and ideas, the Russian version of neo-Kantianism has a special, but still unclearly defined place and not realized in all its significance. Previous, traditional techniques and classifications of Russian neo-Kantianism can no longer be adequately used when analyzing this phenomenon on Russian soil: the data accumulated in the course of historical and philosophical research require special study and the creation of new explanatory models. This unique phenomenon — Russian neo-Kantianism, once nurtured and cherished by neo-Kantian scholars — will, over time, make it possible to rethink the ideological role in the modern world of both neo-Kantianism in general and, first of all, its Marburg school as an institutionally and theoretically more “strict” branch neo-Kantian movement. Even a superficial acquaintance with the phenomena of the real existence of neo-Kantian thought in the history of Russian society not only leaves the impression of untapped wealth, but also gives rise to many pressing research problems: from the problem of defining the phenomenon “Russian neo-Kantianism” to the question of the neo-Kantian context of Soviet philosophy.