__NOTOC__ Richard Kroner (8 March 1884 in Breslau – 2 November 1974 in Mammern) was a German neo-Hegelian philosopher, known for his ''Von Kant bis Hegel'' (1921/4), a classic history of

German idealism German idealism was a philosophical movement that emerged in Germany in the late 18th and early 19th centuries. It developed out of the work of Immanuel Kant in the 1780s and 1790s, and was closely linked both with Romanticism and the revolutiona ...

written from the neo-Hegelian point of view. He was a

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, from a

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ish background. He is known for his formulation of

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as 'the

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'. His Jewish ancestry led him to be 'suspended' (dismissed) under

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legislation in 1934, from his university position at

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. He was replaced briefly by

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, a personal friend. The American philosopher Otis Lee studied with Kroner for the academic year 1933–1934 and helped him escape to the United States and find a new academic position at Manhattan's Union Theological Seminary. Kroner's ideas on Hegel, including his slant from Kierkegaard, were taken up by some

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thinkers, including

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and

Nikolai Berdyaev Nikolai Alexandrovich Berdyaev (; russian: Никола́й Алекса́ндрович Бердя́ев; – 24 March 1948) was a Russian philosopher, theologian, and Christian existentialist who emphasized the existential spiritual sig ...

Works

*''Zweck und Gesetz in der Biologie. Eine logische Untersuchung'' (1913) *''Kants Weltanschauung'' (1914) *''Hegel. Zum 100. Todestag'' (1932) *''Die Selbstverwirklichung des Geistes. Prolegomena zur Kulturphilosophie'' (1928) *''Von Kant bis Hegel''. **1. Band: ''Von der Vernunftkritik zur Naturphilosophie'' (1921) **2. Band: ''Von der Naturphilosophie zur Philosophie des Geistes'' (1924) *''Speculation in pre-Christian philosophy'' (1957) *''Selbstbesinnung. Drei Lehrstunden'' (1958) *''Speculation and Revelation In Modern Philosophy'' (1961) *''Between Faith and Thought: Reflections and Suggestions'' (1966) *''Freiheit und Gnade'' (1969)

References

*''On Two Books by Richard Kroner'' (1930) -

*''Richard Kroner (1884-1974). Ein christlicher Philosoph jüdischer Herkunft unter dem Schatten Hitlers'' (1993) - Walter Asmus

External links

Kant's Weltanschauung
on archive.org
The Primary Of Faith
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Richard Kroner : Von Kant bis HegelOn Christianity Early Theological Writings by Hegel --INTRODUCTION : HEGEL'S Philosophical Development By RICHARD KRONER
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Von Kant bis Hegel (2 Vols)
on archive.org 1884 births 1974 deaths German male writers 20th-century German philosophers Columbia University faculty {{Germany-philosopher-stub