The Insufficient Radicality of Marburg Neo-Kantian Philosophical Contributions in Rescuing Metaphysics from Crisis

Document Type : Original Research

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H.B. Gendeschmin 1
H.B. Gendeschmin 2
M. Raayat Jahromi 2
M.H. Heidari 2
A. Rajabi 3
1 Department of Philosophy, Humanities, Imam Khomeini International University of Qazwin, Iran
2 Department of Philosophy, Faculty of Literature and Humanities, Imam Khomeini International University, Qazwin, Iran
3 Department of Philosophy, Faculty of Literature and Humanities, University of Tehran, Tehran, Iran
10.58209/jpt.5.3.339
Abstract
In the second half of the nineteenth century, with the emergence of major crises in multiple dimensions of metaphysics, one of the major efforts to deliver metaphysics from the crisis was the contributions of the Marburg philosophical school, which made methodological efforts from 1870 until the First World War. In this article, after an impartial description of these activities, we will see that from a phenomenological standpoint, their contributions were not as radical, for two reasons: thematic and methodological. According to Husserl, such deliverance lies not in its salvation as Epistemology or the logic of sciences, but in the salvation of the Subject through the understanding and configuration of the three crises of philosophy, science, and the crisis of European man [thematic criticism]. In terms of methodology, the transcendental method of the Marburgians is not progressive like phenomenology, but rather regressive.

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Philosophical Thought
Volume 5, Issue 3 - Serial Number 19
Summer 2025
Summer 2025
Pages 339-353

  • Receive Date 14 July 2025
  • Publish Date 22 June 2025