Otto Liebmann, born February 2, 1840, died January 14, 1912, was a German

Germany

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 philosopher.

A forerunner of Neo-Kantianism

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...

, in his best known book, Kant und die Epigonen, he deals with the philosophy after Kant

Immanuel Kant

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, discussing Fichte

Johann Gottlieb Fichte

Johann Gottlieb Fichte was a German philosopher. He was one of the founding figures of the philosophical movement known as German idealism, a movement that developed from the theoretical and ethical writings of Immanuel Kant...

, Schelling

Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph Schelling

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, Hegel, Fries

Jakob Friedrich Fries

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, Herbart

Johann Friedrich Herbart

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 and Schopenhauer. Having credited Kants philosophy (though criticizing it on the vital point of accepting a thing-in-itself

Noumenon

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), he focuses on what he sees as the shortcomings in the approaches of Kants successors. He frequently ends a section with the statement that one should return to Kant.

Works

• "Kant und die Epigonen" (1865) (Kant and his inferior successors)
• "Zur Analysis der Wirklichkeit" (1876) (About the analysis of actuality)
• "Die Klimax der Theorien" (1884) (The climax of theory)
• "Gedanken und Tatsachen", 2 Bände (1882-1904) (Thoughts and facts)

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