Abstract
The paper uses the Neo-Kantian distinction between Natural and Human sciences and its methodological implications to navigate W. E. B. Du Bois’s and Alain L. Locke’s theories of race. In tracing a continuity between these two figures, the paper also shows how their respective reliance on Neo-Kantian categories leads them to different results. The goal is to show how, while Du Bois’s Neo-Kantianism is best understood as a Diltheyan Neo-Kantianism of the psycho-physical unity of human nature influenced by an anti-metaphysical orientation, Locke’s Neo-Kantianism can be seen as a Neo-Kantianism whose focus is the rejection of causality and of the causal nexus between biological and non-biological traits.
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Artikel in diesem Heft
- Frontmatter
- Research Articles
- Cohen’s Influence on Husserl’s Understanding of Kant’s Transcendental Method
- Two Types of Neo-Kantianism. The Case of W. E. B. Du Bois’s and Alain L. Locke’s Race Theories
- Merleau-Ponty and the Intellectualist Theory of Perception
- Book Reviews
- Stephen Menn and Justin E. H. Smith: Anton Wilhelm Amo’s Philosophical Dissertations on Mind and Body
- Robb Dunphy: Hegel and the Problem of Beginning. Scepticism and Presuppositionlessness
- Elisabeth Theresia Widmer: Left-Kantianism in the Marburg School
Artikel in diesem Heft
- Frontmatter
- Research Articles
- Cohen’s Influence on Husserl’s Understanding of Kant’s Transcendental Method
- Two Types of Neo-Kantianism. The Case of W. E. B. Du Bois’s and Alain L. Locke’s Race Theories
- Merleau-Ponty and the Intellectualist Theory of Perception
- Book Reviews
- Stephen Menn and Justin E. H. Smith: Anton Wilhelm Amo’s Philosophical Dissertations on Mind and Body
- Robb Dunphy: Hegel and the Problem of Beginning. Scepticism and Presuppositionlessness
- Elisabeth Theresia Widmer: Left-Kantianism in the Marburg School