Current Research

Larger Projects:

Book Project:  From the Critique of Reason to the Critique of Culture.  The Transformation of Kant's Transcendental Philosophy in the Marburg School of neo-Kantianism.  Manuscript completed.

This project attempts to reassess one of the most dominant and interesting philosophical schools between ca. 1880 and 1920 in Europe.  Part of this project involves bringing it into dialogue with the Phenomenological Movement.  Apart from highlighting a highly original and innovative reading of Kant's overall philosophical project, it also hopes to broaden the horizon of historical work done in 19th and 20th century philosophy, now that "analytic" philosophers are rediscovering their historical roots and that "continental" philosophers have moved away from the idea that phenomenology and everything that came thereafter did away with a dated form of scientific philosophy.

Translation:  Edmund Husserl, Erste Philosophie (First Philosophy), Husserliana VII & VIII.  Trans. with Thane M. Naberhaus, to appear in 2013 with Springer Publishers.

This translation features Husserl's celebrated lecture of 1923/24 (with important research manuscripts) on Phenomenology as First Philosophy.  Part one is Husserl's only published "kritische Ideengeschichte" (critical history of ideas), in which he deals with Plato, Aristotle, Hume, Kant, among others.  Part two develops a new theory of the phenomenological reduction, which deepens and corrects the presentation in Ideas I, which Husserl had become dissatisfied with.  This is arguably one of Husserl's most interesting and influential lectures.

Reader:  The Neo-Kantianism Reader, under contract with Routledge.

This reader, to appear in 2013, will assemble key texts of Neo-Kantian philosophers that have either not been translated at all or have appeared in scattered places.

Critical Edition:  Paul Natorp, Allgemeine Psychologie nach kritischer Methode, 1912.  Under contract with the Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft, to appear in 2013. 

This will be a critical edition of Natorp's book of 1912, which has been out of print for nearly a century and which had seminal influence on phenomenologists (Husserl, Scheler, Heidegger) and many empirical psychologists, such as Binswanger, Jaspers and others.

Anthology:  Husserl und die klassische deutsche Philosophie, edited by Faustino Fabbianelli and Sebastian Luft, under contract with Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, to appear in 2013.

This anthology will assemble the articles delivered at a conference, sponsored by the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation (Humboldt Kolleg), in March 2012 in Parma, Italy.  The speakers are, besides the editors:  Rudolf Bernet, Ernst Wolfgang Orth, Thane M. Naberhaus, David Carr, Christian Krijnen, Julia Jansen, Klaus Erich Kaehler, Massimo Ferrari, Tanja Staehler, Smail Rapic, Luca Bisin, Alexander Schnell, Colin Hahn, Bernward Grünewald, Beatrice Centi, and Stefano Poggi.  This is the first larger-scale attempt to bring Husserl into the arena of classical German philosophy (Kant, German Idealism, Neo-Kantianism) and its contemporary representatives.

Upcoming Talks and Conferences:

Fall 2012:  Conference "Newer Research in Classical German Philosophy" to be held at Marquettte, organized by me.  Speakers: Günther Zöller (Munich), Sebastian Luft and TBA. 

October 4-7, 2012:  German Studies Organization Conference, Milwaukee, WI.

November 15, 2012:  Conference "Coloquio Husserl: Percepción - Afectividad - Volición," Universidad Alberto Hurtado, Santiago de Chile.  I will give a talk, title TBA.

March 2013:  Conference on Intercultural Phenomenoloy in Kyoto.  I will give a talk, title TBA.

Summer 2013:  SPAWN Conference on Neo-Kantianism.  Organized together with Frederick Beiser, to be held at Syracuse University.

Summer/Fall 2014 (tentative):  Conference on the Philosophy of Ernst Cassirer at Marquette University, organized by me.

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