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45Husserl’s Method of ReductionIn Sebastian Luft & Søren Overgaard (eds.), The Routledge Companion to Phenomenology, Routledge. 2011.
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32Hermann Cohen's Critical Idealism (review)Journal of the History of Philosophy 45 (4): 668-670. 2007.Sebastian Luft - Hermann Cohen's Critical Idealism - Journal of the History of Philosophy 45:4 Journal of the History of Philosophy 45.4 668-670 Muse Search Journals This Journal Contents Reviewed by Sebastian Luft Marquette University Reinier Munk, editor. Hermann Cohen's Critical Idealism. Amsterdam Studies in Jewish Thought 10. Dordrecht: Springer, 2005. Pp. v + 434. Cloth, $229.00. This anthology, the first of its kind in English, is devoted to a much-needed reassessment of Hermann Cohen's p…Read more
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56Faktizität und Geschichtlichkeit als Konstituentien der Lebenswelt in Husserls SpätphilosophiePhänomenologische Forschungen 2005 13-40. 2005.In this paper I shall present two elements of Husserl’s theory of the life-world, facticity and historicity, which are of exemplary importance for his late phenomenology as a whole. I compare these two notions to two axes upon which Husserl’s phenomenology of the life-world becomes inscribed. Reconsidering and reconstructing Husserl’s late thought under this viewpoint sheds new light on a notoriously enigmatic problem, i.e., the concept of the transcendental and its relation to the „mundane“ – t…Read more
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7Forms of Knowledge and Sensibility: Ernst Cassirer and the Human Sciences, and: Dilthey und Cassirer: Die Deutung der Neuzeit als Muster von Geistes- und Kulturgeschichte (review)Journal of the History of Philosophy 42 (4): 504-506. 2004.In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content:Reviewed by:Forms of Knowledge and Sensibility: Ernst Cassirer and the Human Sciences and: Dilthey und Cassirer: Die Deutung der Neuzeit als Muster von Geistesund KulturgeschichteSebastian LuftGunnar Foss and Eivind Kasa, editors. Forms of Knowledge and Sensibility: Ernst Cassirer and the Human Sciences. Kristiansand: HøyskoleForlaget, 2002. Pp. 223. Paper, $25.00.Thomas Leinkauf, editor. Dilthey und Cassirer: Die Deutung der Neuzeit…Read more
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15Ernst Cassirer: The Last Philosopher of Culture (review)Journal of the History of Philosophy 48 (1): 116-117. 2010.In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content:Reviewed by:Ernst Cassirer: The Last Philosopher of CultureSebastian LuftEdward Skidelsky. Ernst Cassirer: The Last Philosopher of Culture. Princeton-Oxford: Princeton University Press, 2008. Pp. ix + 288. Cloth $34.00.This is a curious book, because the soul of its author is torn.On the one hand, the book is a monograph on the philosopher-intellectual Ernst Cassirer. It is scholarly, noticeably well-written (not surprisingly, as the…Read more
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308From being to givenness and back: Some remarks on the meaning of transcendental idealism in Kant and HusserlInternational Journal of Philosophical Studies 15 (3): 367-394. 2007.This paper takes a fresh look at a classical theme in philosophical scholarship, the meaning of transcendental idealism, by contrasting Kant's and Husserl's versions of it. I present Kant's transcendental idealism as a theory distinguishing between the world as in-itself and as given to the experiencing human being. This reconstruction provides the backdrop for Husserl's transcendental phenomenology as a brand of transcendental idealism expanding on Kant: through the phenomenological reduction H…Read more
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17Das Subjekt als moralische Person: Zu Husserls späten Refl exionen bezüglich desPersonenbegriff sIn Philippe Merz, Andrea Staiti & Frank Steffen (eds.), Geist, Person, Gemeinschaft: Freiburger Beiträge zur Aktualität Husserls, Ergon. 2010.In this essay, I will attempt a systematic reconstruction of the general shape of Husserl's late philosophy, insofar as it centers on the concept of personhood. The systematic concatenation of this and other themes in Husserl's late work - the method of epoché and reduction, ethics, personhood, and teleology - has only recently begun to be explored in Husserl scholarship, and this article is a modest contribution to the further e1ucidation of their mutual relationship. One of the most striking r…Read more
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13Review essay: Two Themes of Husserl's Phenomenology Revisited Responsibility and IntersubjectivityContinental Philosophy Review 32 (1): 89-99. 1999.
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74Review of Skidelsky, "Ernst Cassirer: The last philosopher of culture" (review)Journal of the History of Philosophy 48 (1). 2009.This is a curious book, because the soul of its author is torn.On the one hand, the book is a monograph on the philosopher-intellectual Ernst Cassirer. It is scholarly, noticeably well-written , philosophical to the extent that it does not distort its subject matter too much, and a splendid piece of intellectual history, which places its subject, Cassirer, in a rich cultural, historical, and intellectual context. In terms of presenting the gist of Cassirer’s thought in relatively few pages, the …Read more
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16Dialectics of the AbsolutePhilosophy Today 43 (Supplement): 107-114. 1999.This paper draws out the "speculative" consequences of Husserl's late philosophy which centers around the two major forms of life, the prephilosophical and philosophical attitude. Husserl also calls the philosophical sphere that of the "absolute," since every other form of life is relative upon it. The way to attain this state is, as I try to show, carried out in a certain "dialectical" fashion which attempts to synthesize both at first seemingly contradictory attitudes. In conclusion, I am draw…Read more
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36Desde el ser a lo dado y desde lo dado al ser: algunos comentarios sobre el significado del trascendentalismo ideal en Kant y HusserlInvestigaciones Fenomenológicas 5 49-83. 2007.This paper takes a fresh look at a classical theme in philosophical scholarship, the meaning of transcendental idealism, by contrasting Kant's and Husserl's versions thereof. I present Kant's transcendental idealism as a theory distinguishing between the world as in-itself and as given to the experiencing human being. This reconstruction provides the backdrop for Husserl's transcendental phenomenology as a brand of transcendental idealism expanding on Kant: Through the phenomenological reduction…Read more
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6Dialectics of the absolutePhilosophy Today 43 (4): 107-114. 1999.This paper draws out the "speculative" consequences of Husserl's late philosophy which centers around the two major forms of life, the prephilosophical and philosophical attitude. Husserl also calls the philosophical sphere that of the "absolute," since every other form of life is relative upon it. The way to attain this state is, as I try to show, carried out in a certain "dialectical" fashion which attempts to synthesize both at first seemingly contradictory attitudes. In conclusion, I am draw…Read more
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33Die archivierung Des husserlschen nachlasses 1933–1935 – Karl Schuhmann in memorianHusserl Studies 20 (1): 1-23. 2004.
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28Cassirer’s Philosophy of Symbolic FormsIdealistic Studies 34 (1): 25-47. 2004.This paper pursues the double task of presenting Cassirer’s Philosophy of Symbolic Forms as a systematic critique of culture and assessing this systematic approach with regards to the question of reason vs. relativism. First, it reconstructs the development of his theory to its mature presentation in his Philosophy of Symbolic Forms. Cassirer here presents a critique of culture as fulfilling Kant’s critical work by insisting on the plurality of reason as spirit, manifesting itself in symbolic fo…Read more
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55A Hermeneutic Phenomenology of Subjective and Objective SpiritNew Yearbook for Phenomenology and Phenomenological Philosophy 4 209-248. 2004.
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313Continental divide: Heidegger, Cassirer, davos (review)Journal of the History of Philosophy 49 (4): 508-509. 2011.In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content:Reviewed by:Continental Divide: Heidegger, Cassirer, DavosSebastian LuftPeter E. Gordon. Continental Divide: Heidegger, Cassirer, Davos. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2010. Pp. 448. Cloth, $39.95.Much ink has been spilled on the dispute between Ernst Cassirer and Martin Heidegger that took place in the Swiss resort town Davos in 1929—famous since Thomas Mann staged his Magic Mountain there—and which has since been referred…Read more
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169A Hermeneutic Phenomenology of Subjec-tive and Objective Spirit: Husserl, Natorp, and CassirerThe New Yearbook for Phenomenology and Phenomenological Philosophy 4 209-248. 2004.In the introduction to the third and last volume of his Philosophy of Symbolic Forms of 1929,entitled “Phenomenology of Knowledge,” Ernst Cassirer remarks that the meaning in which he employs the term ‘phenomenology’ is Hegelian rather than according to “the modern usage of the term.”1 What sense can it make, then, to invoke Edmund Husserl’s phenomenology in this context? Yet if, roughly speaking, phenomenology can be characterized as the logosof phenomena,that is, of being insofar as it appears…Read more
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10Der vorliegende Band bietet eine repräsentative Auswahl der wichtigsten Forschungsmanuskripte zur Methode der transzendental-phänomenologischen Reduktion aus Husserls Spätwerk. Werkgeschichtlich orientiert sich diese Edition an den Arbeitsphasen ab 1926, in denen Husserl wiederholt ein `System der Phänomenologie' bzw. ein phänomenologisches Grundwerk zu verfassen beabsichtigte. In den chronologisch angeordneten Texten, die Husserl im Rahmen seiner Manuskriptordnung vom Frühjahr 1935 einer eigene…Read more
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7Review essay: Two Themes of Husserl's Phenomenology Revisited Responsibility and IntersubjectivityContinental Philosophy Review 32 (1): 89-99. 1999.
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56The Philosophy of Ernst Cassirer: A Novel Assessment (edited book)De Gruyter. 2015.This volume brings Cassirer s work into the arena of contemporary debates both within and outside of philosophy. All articles offer a fresh and contemporary look at one of the most prolific and important philosophers of the 20th century. The papers are authored by a wide array of scholars working in different areas, such as epistemology, philosophy of culture, sociology, psychopathology, philosophy of science and aesthetics."
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101New journals in phenomenology: Annales de phénoménologie, the new yearbook for phenomenology and phenomenological philosophy, phänomenologische forschungen (review)Husserl Studies 20 (2): 167-181. 2004.
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9Suitable for those conducting research or teaching in philosophy, this title provides analyses of the continental tradition of philosophy from Kant. Placing continental philosophy within a historical context, it helps define what the continental tradition has been and where it is moving.