Richard Kroner was a German

Germany

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 neo-Hegelian philosopher, known for his Von Kant bis Hegel (1921/4), a classic history of German idealism

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 revolutionary politics of the Enlightenment...

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

Christian

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, from a Jewish background. He is known for his formulation of Hegel as 'the Protestant Aquinas'.

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

Nazism

Nazism, the common short form name of National Socialism was the ideology and practice of the Nazi Party and of Nazi Germany...

 legislation in 1934, from his university position at Kiel

Kiel

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. He was replaced briefly by Hans-Georg Gadamer

Hans-Georg Gadamer

Hans-Georg Gadamer was a German philosopher of the continental tradition, best known for his 1960 magnum opus, Truth and Method .-Life:...

, a personal friend.

Kroner's ideas on Hegel, including his slant from Kierkegaard, were taken up by some existentialist thinkers, including Lev Shestov

Lev Shestov

Lev Isaakovich Shestov , born Yehuda Leyb Schwarzmann , was a Ukrainian/Russian existentialist philosopher. Born in Kiev on , he emigrated to France in 1921, fleeing from the aftermath of the October Revolution. He lived in Paris until his death on November 19, 1938.- Life :Shestov was born Lev...

 and Nikolai Berdyaev

Nikolai Berdyaev

Nikolai Alexandrovich Berdyaev was a Russian religious and political philosopher.-Early life and education:Berdyaev was born in Kiev into an aristocratic military family. He spent a solitary childhood at home, where his father's library allowed him to read widely...

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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)

External links

• Kant's Weltanschauung on archive.org
• The Primary Of Faith on archive.org
• Richard Kroner : Von Kant bis Hegel
• On Christianity Early Theological Writings by Hegel --INTRODUCTION : HEGEL'S Philosophical Development By RICHARD KRONER on archive.org
• Von Kant bis Hegel (2 Vols) on archive.org