Johannes Volkelt

Works

• Other Work

  • Main publications:
    
    (1886) Erfahrung und Denken. Hamburg and Leipzig

  • Voss.
    
    (1905-1914) System der Ästhetik 3 vols, Munich: Beck. (1918) Gewissheit und Wahrheit, Munich: Beck. (1925) Phänomenologie und Metaphysik der Zeit, Munich: Beck.
    
    (1928) Das Problem der Individualität, Munich: Beck.
    
    Secondary literature:
    
    Neumann, Thomas (1978) Gewissheit und Skepsis. Untersuchungen zur Philosophie Johannes Volkelts, Amsterdam

  • Rodopi.

Views

Volkelt at first was himself a speculative metaphysician. However, after a sceptical period, he came to advocate a critical metaphysics which was based on the acceptance of an extra-subjective reality, namely what he called the 'trans-subjective minimum’. Together with Liebmann, he is sometimes counted among the metaphysical directions of neo-Kantianism.

His interpretetation of time and individuality is a good example of his criticalrealistic metaphysics. He was also important for his systematic treatment of aesthetics.

Interests

• Aesthetics.