Katherina Kinzel
Biographic Data
| ID | 1689440 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Katherina Kinzel |
| GIVEN NAMES | Katherina |
| FAMILY NAME | Kinzel |
| SIGNATURE | KINZEL K |
| AFFILIATIONS | Utrecht University |
| ORCID | 0009-0009-8206-828X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 12 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 35 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 12 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2012 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Reification, Abstraction, Idealism
Georg Lukács’s History and Class Consciousness (1923) has often been criticised for its idealism. I discuss Lukács’s critique of reification in light of these charges, identifying two different idealist vocabularies of (neo-)Kantian and Hegelian origin, respectively. I show that the function of the former is critical: refracting Marx’s analysis of social form through a Kantian form/content distinction allows Lukács to critique capitalism as the d…
Marxism Without Irony
Unifying themes and irresolvable tensions in Cassirer's system of symbolic forms
Neo-Kantian conceptualism
This paper reconstructs the major transformations in the Marburg neo-Kantian account of experience. By focusing on the problem of ‘conceptualism’, it traces connections between four issues that are central to the transcendental projects of the Marburg philosophers: the interpretation of Kant, the critique of experiential givenness, the account of objective cognition in science, and the relation between scientific and pre-scientific experience. My…
Historical thought in German neo-Kantianism
Two books inaugurated the revival of Kantianism in German universities in the second half of the nineteenth century. Both works were exercises in the history of philosophy. And both took to the his
Neo-Kantianism as hermeneutics? Heinrich Rickert on psychology, historical method, and understanding
This paper explores the Baden Neo-Kantian attempt to integrate hermeneutic ‘understanding’ (Verstehen) into the formal philosophy of the historical sciences. It focuses primarily on Heinrich Rickert’s account of history as an individuating science. It gives a systematic reconstruction of Rickert’s views on historical method, the relation between history and psychology, and the concept of culture, and it traces the development of Rickert’s encount…
Method and Meaning
In this article I revisit nineteenth-century debates over historical objectivity and the political functions of historiography. I focus on two influential contributors to these debates: Leopold von Ranke and Johann Gustav Droysen. In their takes on objectivity and subjectivity, impartiality and political engagement, I reveal diametrically opposed solutions to shared concerns: how can historians reveal history to be meaningful without resorting to…
Emergence of Relativism
Counterfactuals, causes and contingency in the history of science
Narrative and evidence. How can case studies from the history of science support claims in the philosophy of science
State of the field
Geschichte ohne Kausalität. Abgrenzungsstrategien gegen die Wissenschaftssoziologie in zeitgenössischen Ansätzen historischer Epistemologie
History Without Causality. How Contemporary Historical Epistemology Demarcates Itself From the Sociology of Scientific Knowledge. Contemporary proponents of historical epistemology often try to delimit their enterprise by demarcating it from the sociology of scientific knowledge and other sociologically oriented approaches in the history of science. Their criticism is directed against the use of causal explanations which are deemed to invite redu…
Narrative and evidence. How can case studies from the history of science support claims in the philosophy of science
State of the field
Geschichte ohne Kausalität. Abgrenzungsstrategien gegen die Wissenschaftssoziologie in zeitgenössischen Ansätzen historischer Epistemologie
History Without Causality. How Contemporary Historical Epistemology Demarcates Itself From the Sociology of Scientific Knowledge. Contemporary proponents of historical epistemology often try to delimit their enterprise by demarcating it from the sociology of scientific knowledge and other sociologically oriented approaches in the history of science. Their criticism is directed against the use of causal explanations which are deemed to invite redu…
Counterfactuals, causes and contingency in the history of science
Method and Meaning
In this article I revisit nineteenth-century debates over historical objectivity and the political functions of historiography. I focus on two influential contributors to these debates: Leopold von Ranke and Johann Gustav Droysen. In their takes on objectivity and subjectivity, impartiality and political engagement, I reveal diametrically opposed solutions to shared concerns: how can historians reveal history to be meaningful without resorting to…
Geschichte ohne Kausalität. Abgrenzungsstrategien gegen die Wissenschaftssoziologie in zeitgenössischen Ansätzen historischer Epistemologie
History Without Causality. How Contemporary Historical Epistemology Demarcates Itself From the Sociology of Scientific Knowledge. Contemporary proponents of historical epistemology often try to delimit their enterprise by demarcating it from the sociology of scientific knowledge and other sociologically oriented approaches in the history of science. Their criticism is directed against the use of causal explanations which are deemed to invite redu…
Narrative and evidence. How can case studies from the history of science support claims in the philosophy of science
State of the field
Counterfactuals, causes and contingency in the history of science
Emergence of Relativism
Method and Meaning
In this article I revisit nineteenth-century debates over historical objectivity and the political functions of historiography. I focus on two influential contributors to these debates: Leopold von Ranke and Johann Gustav Droysen. In their takes on objectivity and subjectivity, impartiality and political engagement, I reveal diametrically opposed solutions to shared concerns: how can historians reveal history to be meaningful without resorting to…
Historical thought in German neo-Kantianism
Two books inaugurated the revival of Kantianism in German universities in the second half of the nineteenth century. Both works were exercises in the history of philosophy. And both took to the his
Neo-Kantianism as hermeneutics? Heinrich Rickert on psychology, historical method, and understanding
This paper explores the Baden Neo-Kantian attempt to integrate hermeneutic ‘understanding’ (Verstehen) into the formal philosophy of the historical sciences. It focuses primarily on Heinrich Rickert’s account of history as an individuating science. It gives a systematic reconstruction of Rickert’s views on historical method, the relation between history and psychology, and the concept of culture, and it traces the development of Rickert’s encount…
Unifying themes and irresolvable tensions in Cassirer's system of symbolic forms
Neo-Kantian conceptualism
This paper reconstructs the major transformations in the Marburg neo-Kantian account of experience. By focusing on the problem of ‘conceptualism’, it traces connections between four issues that are central to the transcendental projects of the Marburg philosophers: the interpretation of Kant, the critique of experiential givenness, the account of objective cognition in science, and the relation between scientific and pre-scientific experience. My…
Marxism Without Irony
Reification, Abstraction, Idealism
Georg Lukács’s History and Class Consciousness (1923) has often been criticised for its idealism. I discuss Lukács’s critique of reification in light of these charges, identifying two different idealist vocabularies of (neo-)Kantian and Hegelian origin, respectively. I show that the function of the former is critical: refracting Marx’s analysis of social form through a Kantian form/content distinction allows Lukács to critique capitalism as the d…
Epistemology (9 works) · Philosophy (9 works) · Philosophy (6 works) · Sociology (5 works) · Philosophy and History of Science (4 works) · Philosophy, Science, and History (4 works) · Linguistics (3 works) · Philosophy, History, and Historiography (3 works) · Classical Studies and Philology (2 works) · Contingency (2 works)