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Lotze, Rudolph Hermann (1817–81)

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List of works

  • Lotze, R.H. (1841) Metaphysik (Metaphysics), Leipzig: Weidmann.

    (The ‘lesser’ metaphysics, published while Lotze was a Docent at Leipzig.)

  • Lotze, R.H. (1843) Logik (Logic), Leipzig: Weidmann.

    (The ‘lesser’ logic.)

  • Lotze, R.H. (1852) Medicinische Psychologie, oder Physiologie der Seele (Medical psychology, or physiology of the soul), Leipzig: Weidmann.

    (Lotze’s physiological psychology, notable for its discussion of his theory of ‘local signs’.)

  • Lotze, R.H. (1856–8, 1858–64) Mikrokosmus, Ideen zur Naturgeschichte und Geschichte der Menschheit, Versuch einer Anthropologie, Leipzig: S. Hirzel, 3rd edn, 1876–80; trans. E. Hamilton and E.E.C. Jones Microcosmos: An Essay Concerning Man and his Relation to the World, Edinburgh: T.&T. Clark, 1885.

    (Lotze’s popular exposition of his views on human nature and on the meaning of human existence.)

  • Lotze, R.H. (1857) Streitschriften (Polemical writings), Leipzig: S. Hirzel.

    (A reply to criticism by I.H. Fichte, a ‘late-idealist’.)

  • Lotze, R.H. (1868) Geschichte der Aesthetik in Deutschland (History of aesthetics in Germany), Munich: J.G. Cotta.

    (A three-part work, containing a detailed review of prior German aesthetic theory.)

  • Lotze, R.H. (1874) Logik, Drei Bücher vom Denken, vom Untersuchen und vom Erkennen, Leipzig: S. Hirzel, 2nd edn, 1880; Logik, Erstes Buch, vom Denken, and Logik, Drittes Buch, vom Erkennen, ed. G. Gabriel, Hamburg: Felix Meiner, 1989; trans. and ed. B. Bosanquet, Logic, in Three Books: Ontology, Cosmology and Psychology, Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1884; 2nd edn, 1887.

    (The first volume of Lotze’s incompleted System der Philosophie. The new German edition, in two volumes for Books One and Three, contains both valuable introductory essays and extensive bibliographies.)

  • Lotze, R.H. (1879) Metaphysik, Drei Bücher der Ontologie, Kosmologie und Psychologie, Leipzig: S. Hirzel; trans. and ed. B. Bosanquet, Metaphysics in Three Books: Ontology, Cosmology and Psychology, Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1884; 2nd edn, 1887.

    (The second volume of Lotze’s incompleted System der Philosophie.)

  • Lotze, R.H. (1885–91) Kleine Schriften (Lesser writings), ed. D. Peipers, Leipzig: S. Hirzel.

    (A posthumous collection including, inter alia, short essays and book reviews.)

  • Lotze, R.H. (1989) Kleine Schriften zur Psychologie (Lesser writings on psychology), ed. R. Pester, Berlin: Springer.

    (A recent collection of original source texts with additional material and commentary.)

References and further reading

  • Besoli, S. (1992) Il valore della verità (The value of truth), Florence: Ponte Alle Grazie.

    (A detailed examination of Lotze’s logic and of his epistemology.)

  • Morgan, M.J. (1977) Molyneux’s Question: Vision, Touch, And The Philosophy Of Perception, Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press.

    (An idiosyncratic work containing an extended discussion of Lotze’s ‘theory of local signs’.)

  • Orth, E.W. (1986) ‘Rudolf Hermann Lotze: Das Ganze unseres Welt-und Selbstverständnisses’ (Rudolf Hermann Lotze: the Systematic Understanding of Self And World), in Grundprobleme der grossen Philosophen. Philosophie der Neuzeit IV (Basic Problems of the Great Philosophers. Modern Philosophy IV), ed. J. Speck, Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht.

    (An important survey article which divides Lotze’s work into three phases of development and contains detailed biographical information.)

  • Santayana, G. (1971) Lotze’s System of Philosophy, ed. P.G. Kuntz, Bloomington, IN, and London: Indiana University Press.

    (Santayana’s 1889 doctoral dissertation at Harvard, under J. Royce, transcribed with an extensive introduction and exhaustive bibliography supplied by the editor.)

  • Schnädelbach, H. (1984) Philosophy in Germany, 1831–1933, trans. E. Matthews Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

    (An important general reference work, which also contains a chapter largely devoted to Lotze’s theory of value.)

  • Wagner, G. (1987) Geltung und normativer Zwang (Validity and normative force), Freiburg and Munich: Verlag Karl Alber.

    (A study of the development of Neo-Kantianism which also situates Lotze’s metaphysics in its historical context.)

  • Willard, D. (1984) Logic and the Objectivity of Knowledge, Athens, OH: Ohio University Press.

    (While devoted to the early history of Husserl and phenomenology, this work also contains many references to Lotze and his influence.)

  • Woodward, W.R. (1999) From Mechanism to Value. Hermann Lotze: Physician, Philosopher, Psychologist 1817–1881, Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press.

    (This book promises to be the definitive study of Lotze in English to date.)

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