Karl Vorländer was a German

Germany

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  neo-Kantian

Neo-Kantianism

Neo-Kantianism refers broadly to a revived type of philosophy along the lines of that laid down by Immanuel Kant in the 18th century, or more specifically by Schopenhauer's criticism of the Kantian philosophy in his work The World as Will and Representation , as well as by other post-Kantian...

 philosopher who taught in Solingen

Solingen

Solingen is a city in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. It is located on the northern edge of the region called Bergisches Land, south of the Ruhr area, and with a 2009 population of 161,366 is the second largest city in the Bergisches Land...

. He published various studies and editions of the works of Kant

Immanuel Kant

Immanuel Kant was a German philosopher from Königsberg , researching, lecturing and writing on philosophy and anthropology at the end of the 18th Century Enlightenment....

, including studies of the relation between Kantian thought and socialist thought, and of the influence of Kant on the work of Johann Wolfgang Goethe. His 1924 biography of Kant became a classic of Kant scholarship for much of the twentieth century (see Herbert Schnädelbach, Kant. Leipzig: Reclam, 2005, p. 152).

Works

• Kant, Schiller, Goethe (Leipzig: Dürr, 1907 and 1923)
• Geschichte der Philosophie (1908)
• Immanuel Kants Leben (1911)
• Kant, Fichte, Hegel und der Sozialismus (Berlin: Cassirer, 1920)
• Immanuel Kant. Der Mann und das Werk (Leipzig: Felix Meiner, 1925)

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