Richard Hoenigwald´s Theory of Cultur and Knowledge

The research project aims to investigate Richard Hoenigswald`s (1875-1947) elaborated theory of culture and knowledge, first presented in its outlines in the 2nd edition of Ueber die Grundlagen der Paedagogik (1927). This investigation is designed to serve the knowledge of a thinker whose acadamic career was suddenly stopped in 1933, and who unfortunately could not regain the philosophical reputation he deserves, since he became a victim of misleading interpretations, that tried to turn his (neo-)kantian epistemological approach into an ontological theory. Therefore, regarding his epistemology, especially his concept of an Universal Methodology (Allgemeine Methodenlehre), it has to be investigated, to what extent the methodology and theory of knowledge Hoenigswald presents in his posthumous works can be understood as a criticistic alternative to the analytic and neo-positivistic approaches that predominated the epistemological debates of the 20th century and if it opens the way to a methodology, that is really universal, insofar it is not restricted to mathematical and physical methods.