Sergei Hessen, neo-kantian

dedicated to professor Andrzej Walicki

Marek Styczyński

pp. 55-71

in: Studies in East European Thought 56 (1), 2004.

Abstract

This paper commemorates thepresentation of the honorary doctorate, in May2001 by the University of Łódź, toProfessor Andrzej Walicki. On this occasion,the Honorary Graduate delivered a lecturedevoted to his first philosophy teacher –Sergej Iosifovich Hessen, a prominent RussianNeo-Kantian philosopher and a liberal inmatters social and political. I try to analyzethe main features of Hessen's philosophicalneo-Kantianism, in particular the inevitabilityof a choice between the absolute and therelative both in epistemology and in ethics inthe context of contemporary philosophy.

Cited authors

Hessen Sergius

Walicki Andrzej