Hermann Cohen as an Actual Thinker. BOOK REVIEWS.

Abstract

The recent Russian translation of Hermann Cohen’s “Kants Theorie der Erfahrung” (“Kant’s
theory of experience”) provokes refl ections on what this book gives to a contemporary reader.
This is fi rst of all Cohen’s reading of the whole “Critique of pure reason” as a theory of experience,
and also his defense of Kant’s “Critique“’s most frequently attacked points: the deduction of a
priori categories and thing in itself. Cohen’s distinction of the notions of “a priori” and “innate”
shows the way to non-classical philosophy of science and the concept of “historical a priori”.