Selected Works by Cohen

For a complete bibliography of Cohen’s works, see Holzhey 1986, 1.355–383.

• 1977–2005, Werke. H. Holzhey and H. Weidebach (eds.), Hildesheim: G. Olms.
• 1871a, “Zur Controverse zwischen Trendelenburg und Kuno Fischer,” [“On the Controversy between Trendelenburg and Kuno Fischer,”] Zeitschrift für Völkerpsychologie and Sprachewissenschaft, 7 (1871): 249–296.
• 1871b/1885, Kants Theorie der Erfahrung, [Kant’s Theory of Experience,] Berlin: Dümmler. [One central chapter of the 1885 edition is translated as 2015, “The Synthetic Principles,” D. Hyder (trans.), in S. Luft (ed.), The Neo-Kantian Reader, Oxford: Routledge.] (Scholar)
• 1873, Die systematische Begriffe in Kants vorkritische Schriften nach ihrem Verhältniss zum kritischen Idealismus, [Systematic Concepts in Kant’s Pre-critical Writings according to their relation to Critical Idealism], Berlin: Dümmler. (Scholar)
• 1877, Kants Begründung der Ethik [Kant’s Grounding of Ethics], Berlin: Dümmler. (Scholar)
• 1878, “Platons Ideenlehre und die Mathematik,” [“Plato’s Doctrine of Ideas and Mathematics,”] Rectoratsprogramm der Univerisität Marburg, Marburg: Elwertsche.
• 1883, Das Prinzip der Infinitesimal-Methode and seine Geschichte: Ein Kapitel zur Grundlegung der Erkenntniskritik, [The Principle of the Infinitesimal Method and its History: a Chapter of the Foundations of the Critique of Knowledge,] Berlin: Dümmler. [A short selection is translated as 2015, “Introduction,” D. Hyder and L. Patton (trans.), in S. Luft (ed.), The Neo-Kantian Reader, Oxford: Routledge.] (Scholar)
• 1889, Kants Begründung der Ästhetik, [Kant’s Foundations of the Aesthetics,] Berlin: Dümmler. (Scholar)
• 1902a, System der Philosophie, Erster Teil: Logik der reinen Erkenntnis, [System of Philosophy, First Part: Logic of Pure Knowledge,] Berlin: Bruno Cassirer.
• 1902b, “Biographisches Vorwort und kritischem Nachtrag,” [“Biographical Forward and Critical Supplement,”] in F.A. Lange, Geschichte des Materialismus und Kritik seiner Bedeutung in der Gegenwart, Iserlohn und Leipzig: Baedeker.
• 1904/1907, System der Philosophie, Zweiter Teil: Ethik der reinen Willens. [System of Philosophy, Second Part: Ethics of Pure Will,] Berlin: Bruno Cassirer.
• 1907, Kommentar zu Immanuel Kants Kritik der reinen Vernunft, [Commentary on Kant’s Critique of Pure Reason,] Leipzig: Meiner. (Scholar)
• 1912, System der Philosophie, Dritter Teil: Ästhetik der reinen Gefühls, [System of Philosophy, Third Part: Aesthetic of Pure Feeling,] Berlin: Bruno Cassirer.
• 1915, Der Begriffe der Religion im System der Philosophie, [The Concept of Religion in System of Philosophy,] Geissen: Töpelmann.
• 1919, Die Religion der Vernunft aus den Quellen des Judentums, Leipzig: Fock. Translated as: Cohen H., 1972, Religion of Reason: Out of the Sources of Judaism, trans. Simon Kaplan, New York: Frederick Unger. (Scholar)
• 1924, Jüdische Schriften, ed. B. Strauss, Berlin: Schwetschke. Partially translated as: Cohen, H., 1971, Reason and Hope: Selections from the Jewish Writings of Hermann Cohen, trans. Eva Jospe, New York: Norton and Norton. (Scholar)
• 1971 (1908), “Charakteristik der Ethik Maimunis,” in W. Bacher, M. Brann, D. Simonsen, and J. Guttman (eds.), Moses ben Maimon: Sein Leben, seine Werke, und seine Einfluss, Hildesheim: Georg Olms. Translated as: Cohen H., 2004, Ethics of Maimonides, trans. with extensive commentary A. Sh. Bruckstein, Madison, WI: University of Wisconsin Press. (Scholar)

Selected Secondary Literature

NOTE: Works cited in the text might be located in any one of the 4 subsections below. You may need to check multiple subsections below to find the reference.

General Commentary

• Adelmann, D., 1968, Einheit des Bewussteins als Grundproblem der Philosophie Hermann Cohens, Ph.D. dissertation, Universität Heidelberg. (Scholar)
• –––, 2010, “Reinige dein Denken”: Über den jüdischen Hintergrund der Philosophie von Hermann Cohen, G. Hasselhoff (ed.), Würzburg: Königshausen & Neumann. (Scholar)
• Beiser, F., 2018, Hermann Cohen: An Intellectual Biography, Oxford: Oxford University Press. (Scholar)
• Cassirer, E., 1912, “Hermann Cohen und die Erneuerung der kantische Philosophie,” Kant-studien, 17: 252–273. Translated as: Cohen H., 2005, “Hermann Cohen and the Renewal of Kantian Philosophy,” trans. Lydia Patton, Angelaki, 10(1): 113–125. (Scholar)
• –––, 1943, “Hermann Cohen, 1842–1918,” Social Research, 10(1/4): 219–232. (Scholar)
• Dufour, É., 2001, Hermann Cohen: Introduction au Néokantisme de Marbourg, Paris: Presses Universitaires de France. (Scholar)
• –––, 2003, Les Néokantiens: Valuer et Vérité, Paris: Vrin. (Scholar)
• Ebbinghaus, J., 1959, “Zur Berufung Cohens auf den Marburger Lehrstuhl,” Archiv für Philosophie, 9: 90–92. (Scholar)
• –––, 1967, “Hermann Cohen,” in P. Edwards, The Encyclopedia of Philosophy, New York: Collier-Macmillan. (Scholar)
• Holzhey, H., 1986, Cohen und Natorp, Basel: Schwabe & Co. (Scholar)
• –––, 2005, “Cohen and the Marburg School in Context,” in (Munk, 2005). (Scholar)
• Luft, S., 2015, The Space of Culture: Towards a Neo-Kantian Philosophy of Culture (Cohen, Natorp, and Cassirer), Oxford: Oxford University Press. (Scholar)
• Munk, R. (ed.), 2005, Hermann Cohen’s Critical Idealism, Dordrecht: Springer. (Scholar)
• Natorp, P., 1912, “Kant und die Marburger Schule,” Kant-studien, 17: 193-221. (Scholar)
• Poma, A., 1997, The Critical Philosophy of Hermann Cohen, trans. John Denton, Albany: SUNY Press. (Scholar)
• Sieg, U., 1994, Aufstieg und Niedergang des Marburger Neukantianismus: Die Geschichte einer philosophischen Schulgemeinschaft, Würzburg: Königshausen und Neumann. (Scholar)

Kant Interpretation, Epistemology, and Philosophy of Science

• Anderson, R.L., 2005, “Neo-Kantianism and the Roots of Anti-Psychologism,” British Journal for the History of Philosophy, 13(2): 287–323. (Scholar)
• Baumann, C., 2019, “Hermann Cohen on Kant, Sensations, and Nature in Science,” Journal of the History of Philosophy, 57(4): 647–674. (Scholar)
• Beiser, F., 2015, The Genesis of Neo-Kantianism: 1796–1880, Oxford: Oxford University Press. (Scholar)
• Biagioli, F., 2014, “Hermann Cohen and Alois Riehl on Geometrical Empiricism,” HOPOS, 4(1): 83–105. (Scholar)
• –––, 2018, “Cohen and Helmholtz on the Foundations of Measurement,” in C. Damböck (ed.), Philosophie und Wissenschaft bei Hermann Cohen/Philosophy and Science in Hermann Cohen, Cham: Springer. (Scholar)
• Damböck, C., 2017, Deutscher Empirismus: Studien zur Philosophie im deutschsprachigen Raum 1830–1930, Cham: Springer. (Scholar)
• ––– (ed.), 2018, Philosophie und Wissenschaft bei Hermann Cohen/Philosophy and Science in Hermann Cohen, Cham: Springer. (Scholar)
• Dufour, É., 2003, “Remarques sur la Note du Paragraphe 26 de l’Analytique Transcendentale: Les Interprétations de Cohen et Heidegger,” Kant-Studien, 94: 69–79. (Scholar)
• Edel, G., 1988, Von der Vernunftkritik zur Erkenntnislogik, Freiburg: Karl Alber. (Scholar)
• Edgar, S., forthcoming, “Hermann Cohen’s Principle of the Infinitesimal Method: a Defense,” HOPOS: The Journal of the International Society for the History of Philosophy of Science. (Scholar)
• Ferrari, M., 2018, “Versteckte Verwandtschaften. Erkenntniskritik und Wissenschaftsanalyse – Cohen und der Logischen Empirismus”, in C. Damböck (ed.), Philosophie und Wissenschaft bei Hermann Cohen/Philosophy and Science in Hermann Cohen, Cham: Springer. (Scholar)
• Frege, G., 1885 (1984), “Review of H. Cohen, Das Prinzip der Infinitesimalmethode und seine Geschichte,” in B. McGuinness (ed.), Collected Papers on Mathematics, Logic, and Philosophy, Oxford: Basil Blackwell. (Scholar)
• Giovanelli, M., 2011, Reality and Negation – Kant’s Principle of Anticipations of Perception, Dordrecht: Springer. (Scholar)
• –––, 2016, “Hermann Cohen’s Das Princip der Infinitismale-Methode: The history of an unsuccessful book,” Studies in History and Philosophy of Science, 58: 9–23. (Scholar)
• –––, 2018, “ ‘Zwei Bedeutungen des Apriori’. Hermann Cohens Unterscheidung zwischen metaphysischem und transzendentalem a priori und die Vorgeschichte des relativierten a priori,” in C. Damböck (ed.), Philosophie und Wissenschaft bei Hermann Cohen/Philosophy and Science in Hermann Cohen, Cham: Springer.
• Horstmann, R.P., 2008, “Hermann Cohen on Kant’s Transcendental Aesthetic,” The Philosophical Forum, 39(2): 127–138. (Scholar)
• Hyder, D., 2013, “Time, Norms, and Structure in Nineteenth-Century Philosophy of Science,” in M. Beaney (ed.), The Oxford Handbook of Analytic Philosophy, Oxford: Oxford University Press. (Scholar)
• Kühn, M., 2009, “Interpreting Kant Correctly: On the Kant of the Neo-Kantians,” in R. Makkreel and S. Luft (eds.), Neo-Kantianism in Contemporary Philosophy, Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press. (Scholar)
• Patton, L., 2005, “The Critical Philosophy Renewed,” Angelaki, 10(1): 109–118. (Scholar)
• Rendl, L.M., 2018, “Zu Hermann Cohens reduction der ‘transzendentalen Methode’nauf die ‘regressive Lehrart’ der Prolegomena,” in C. Damböck (ed.), Philosophie und Wissenschaft bei Hermann Cohen/Philosophy and Science in Hermann Cohen, Cham: Springer. (Scholar)
• Renz, U., 2018, “Zwischen erkenntnistheoretischem Rationalismus und wissenschaftsphilosophischem Empirismus. Zu Cohens Philosophiebegriff,” in C. Damböck (ed.), Philosophie und Wissenschaft bei Hermann Cohen/Philosophy and Science in Hermann Cohen, Cham: Springer. (Scholar)
• Richardson, A., 2003, “Conceiving, Experiencing, and Conceiving Experiencing: Neo-Kantianism and the History of the Concept of Experience,” Topoi, 22(1): 55–67. (Scholar)
• –––, 2006, “‘The Fact of Science’ and Critique of Knowledge: Exact Science as problem and Resource in Marburg Neo-Kantianism,” in M. Friedman and A. Nordmann (eds.), The Kantian Legacy in Nineteenth-Century Science, Cambridge, MA: MIT Press. (Scholar)
• Russell, B., 1903, The Principles of Mathematics, New York, NY: W.W. Norton and Company. (Scholar)
• de Schmidt, W., 1976, Psychologie und Transzendentalphilosophie: Zur Psychologie-Rezeption bei Hermann Cohen und Paul Natorp, Bonn: Bouvier. (Scholar)
• Stang, N., 2018, “Hermann Cohen and Kant’s Concept of Experience,” in C. Damböck (ed.), Philosophie und Wissenschaft bei Hermann Cohen/Philosophy and Science in Hermann Cohen, Cham: Springer. (Scholar)
• Stolzenberg, J., 2009, “The Highest Principle and the Principle of Origin in Hermann Cohen’s Theoretical Philosophy,” in R. Makreel and S. Luft (eds.), Neo-Kantianism in Contemporary Philosophy, Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press. (Scholar)

Ethics, Political Theory, and Aesthetics

• Gibbs, R. (ed.), 2006, Hermann Cohen’s Ethics, Boston, MA: Brill Academic Publishing. (Scholar)
• Guyer, P., 2008, “What Happened to Kant in Neo-Kantian Aesthetics? Cohen, Cohn, and Dilthey,” The Philosophical Forum, 39(2): 143–176. (Scholar)
• de Launey, M., 2005, “The Statute of Music in Hermann Cohen’s Ästhetik,” in R. Munk (ed.), Hermann Cohen’s Critical Idealism, Dordrecht: Springer. (Scholar)
• van der Linden, H., 1988, Kantian Ethics and Socialism, Indianapolis, IN: Hackett. (Scholar)
• Moynahan, G., 2018, “The Challenge of Psychology in the Development of Cohen’s System of Philosophy and the Marburg School Project”, in C. Damböck (ed.), Philosophie und Wissenschaft bei Hermann Cohen/Philosophy and Science in Hermann Cohen, Cham: Springer, pp. 41–75. (Scholar)
• Nahme, P., 2019, Hermann Cohen and the Crisis of Liberalism: The Enchantment of the Public Sphere, Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press. (Scholar)
• Poma, A., 2000, “Lyric Poetry and Prayer” in H. Holzhey, G. Motzkin, and H. Wiedebach (eds.), “Religion der Vernunft aus den Quellen des Judentums”: Tradition und Ursprungsdenken in Hermann Cohens Spätwerk, Hildesheim: Georg Olms. (Scholar)
• –––, 2006, Yearning for Form and Other Essays on Hermann Cohen’s Thought, Dordrecht: Springer. (Scholar)
• Schwarzschild, S., 1975, “The Tenability of Herman [sic] Cohen’s Construction of the Self,” Journal of the History of Philosophy, 13: 361–384. (Scholar)
• Trochimska-Kubacka, B., 2018, “Hermann Cohen’s Critical Exposition of Kant’s Critique of Taste,” in D. Kubok (ed.), Thinking Critically: What Does it Mean?, Berlin: De Gruyter. (Scholar)
• Vatter, M., 2017, “Nationality, State and Global Constitutionalism in Hermann Cohen’s Wartime Writings,” in M. Sharpe, R. Jeffs, and J. Reynolds (eds.), 100 Years of European Philosophy Since the Great War: Crisis and Reconfigurations, Cham: Springer. (Scholar)
• Wiedebach, H., 1997, Die Bedeutung der Nationalität für Hermann Cohen, Hildesheim: Georg Olms. (Scholar)
• –––, 2002, “Aesthetics in Religion: Remarks on Hermann Cohen’s Theory of Jewish Existence,” The Journal of Jewish Thought and Philosophy, 11(1): 63–73. (Scholar)

Religion

• Bernstein-Nahar, A., 1998, “Hermann Cohen’s Teaching Concerning Modern Jewish Identity (1904–1918),” in Leo Baeck Institute Yearbook, 43(1): 25–46. (Scholar)
• –––, 2006, “In the Name of a Narrative Education: Hermann Cohen and Historicism Reconsidered,” in R. Gibbs, Hermann Cohen’s Ethics, Boston, MA: Brill Academic Publishing. (Scholar)
• Bonaunet, K., 2004, Hermann Cohen’s Kantian Philosophy of Religion, Bern: Peter Lang. (Scholar)
• Dietrich, W., 1986, Cohen and Troeltsch: Ethical Monotheistic Religion and Theory of Culture, Providence, RI: Brown University Press. (Scholar)
• –––, 2000, “Preface,” in M. Zank, The Idea of Atonement in the Philosophy of Hermann Cohen, Providence, RI: Brown Judaic Studies. (Scholar)
• Erlewine, R., 2010, “Hermann Cohen, Maimonides, and the Jewish Virtue of Humility,” Journal of Jewish Thought and Philosophy 18(1): 27–47. (Scholar)
• Holzey, H., 2000, “Der systematische Ort der Religion der Vernunft im Gesamptwerk Hermann Cohens,” in H. Holzhey, G. Motzkin, and H. Wiedebach (eds.), “Religion der Vernunft aus den Quellen des Judentums”: Tradition und Ursprungsdenken in Hermann Cohens Spätwerk, Hildesheim: Georg Olms. (Scholar)
• Holzhey, H., Motzkin, G., and Wiedebach, H. (eds.), “Religion der Vernunft aus den Quellen des Judentums”: Tradition und Ursprungsdenken in Hermann Cohens Spätwerk, Hildesheim: Georg Olms. (Scholar)
• Horwitz, R, 2000, “Two Models of Atonement in Cohen’s Religion of Reason: One according to Ezekiel, the other ”joyful sufferings“ according to Job,” in H. Holzhey, G. Motzkin, and H. Wiedebach (eds.), “Religion der Vernunft aus den Quellen des Judentums”: Tradition und Ursprungsdenken in Hermann Cohens Spätwerk, Hildesheim: Georg Olms. (Scholar)
• Kepnes, S., 2007, Jewish Liturgical Reasoning, Oxford: Oxford University Press. (Scholar)
• Kluback, W., 1884, Hermann Cohen: The Challenge of a Religion of Reason, Atlanta, GA: Scholar’s Press. (Scholar)
• –––, 1987, The Idea of Humanity: Hermann Cohen’s Legacy to Philosophy and Theology, Lanham, MD: University Press of America. (Scholar)
• –––, 1989, The Legacy of Hermann Cohen, Atlanta, GA: Scholars Press. (Scholar)
• Melber, J., 1968, Hermann Cohen’s Philosophy of Judaism, New York, NY: Yeshiva University Press. (Scholar)
• Moses, S. and Wiedebach, H. (eds.), 1997, Hermann Cohen’s Philosophy of Religion, Hildesheim: Georg Olms. (Scholar)
• Rosenzweig, F., 1924, “Einleitung,” in B. Strauss, Hermann Cohens Jüdische Schriften, Berlin: Schwetchke. (Scholar)
• Schwarzschild, S., 1979, “‘Germanism and Judaism’ — Hermann Cohen’s Normative Paradigm of the German-Jewish Symbiosis,” in D. Bronson (ed.), Jews and Germans from 1860 to 1933: The Problematic Symbiosis, Heidelberg: Carl Winter Universität. (Scholar)
• Vial, M and M. Hadley (eds.), 2001, Ethical Monotheism, Past and Present: Essays in Honor of Wendell Dietrich, Providence, RI: Brown University Press. (Scholar)
• Weiss, D., 2012, Paradox and the Prophets: Hermann Cohen and the Indirect Communication of Religion, Oxford, Oxford University Press. (Scholar)
• Zank, M., 1996, “‘The Individual as I’ in Hermann Cohen’s Jewish Thought,” The Journal of Jewish Thought and Philosophy, 5(2): 281–296. (Scholar)
• –––, 2000, The Idea of Atonement in the Philosophy of Hermann Cohen, Providence, RI: Brown Judaic Studies. (Scholar)

Other Works Cited

• Allison, H., 1983 [2004], Kant’s Transcendental Idealism: An Interpretation and Defense, New Haven, CT: Yale University Press. (Scholar)
• Buber, M., 1923 [1971], I and Thou, trans. W. Kaufmann. Free Press. (Scholar)
• Edel, G., 1993, “Cohen und die analytische Philosophie der Gegenwart,” in R. Brandt and F. Orlik (eds.), Philosophisches Denken – Politisches Wirken: Hermann-Cohen-Kolloquium Marburg 1992, Hildesheim: Georg Olms. (Scholar)
• Friedman, M., 1999, “Carnap’s Aufbau Reconsidered,” Reconsidering Logical Positivism, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. (Scholar)
• –––, 2000, A Parting of the Ways: Carnap, Cassirer, Heidegger, Chicago: Open Court. (Scholar)
• –––, 2001, Dynamics of Reason, Palo Alto, CA: Stanford University Press. (Scholar)
• –––, 2012, “Kant on Geometry and Spatial Intuition,” Synthese, 186(1): 231–255. (Scholar)
• Gay, P., 1970, The Dilemma of Democratic Socialism: Eduard Bernstein’s Challenge to Marx, New York, NY: Columbia University Press. (Scholar)
• Hatfield, G., 1990, The Natural and the Normative: Theories of Spatial Perception from Kant to Helmholtz, Cambridge, MA: MIT Press. (Scholar)
• Kant, I., 1781/1787 [1997], Critique of Pure Reason, trans. P. Guyer and A. Wood, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. (Scholar)
• –––, 1783 [2002], Prolegomena to Any Future Metaphysics that will be able to Come Forward as Science, trans. G. Hatfield, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. (Scholar)
• Köhnke, K.C., 1991, The Rise of Neo-Kantianism: German Academic Philosophy Between Positivism and Idealism, trans. R.J. Hollingdale, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. (Scholar)
• Longuenesse, B., 1998, Kant and the Capacity to Judge, Princeton: Princeton University Press. (Scholar)
• Richardson, A., 1998, Carnap’s Construction of the World, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. (Scholar)
• Stammler, R., 1925 (1902), The Theory of Justice, trans. Isaak Husik, New York, NY: MacMillan. (Scholar)