>Rickert at least merits an entry in my 1989 Soviet Encyclopedia of
>Philosophy. So does Cassirer.
>
Cassirer is quite wonderful, actually, a genuine great scholar. Actually his work in aesthetics may be the last survival of conscious neo-Kantianism. His scholarship was vast I learned a lot from his The Problem of Knowledge. I didn't mean to suggest that no Marxists or Soviets had ever paid attention to the neo-Ks. In fact the Austro-Marxists (Bauer, Hilferding, etc.) were avowed neo-Ks, and of course Lukacs and Korsch (for two) grew up in an academic culture steeped in neo-Kantianism. My point was just this; for the most part neo-K of that sort is a minor footnote to intellectal history, and nobody much, Marxist or non-Marxist, outside a few academic specialists, knows much about it. I don't know why this hould be a particularly controversial or exciting point.
jks
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