La questione dell’arte tra filosofia dei valori e Kulturkritik: su alcuni scritti di Jonas Cohn editi nei primi anni della Grande Guerra (1914-1916),

Domenico Spinosa, The Question of Art between Philosophy of Values and Kulturkritik. On some Writings by Jonas Cohn published in the early Years of the Great War (1914-1916) This contribution proposal intends to reconstruct and then examine the reflections that Jonas Cohn elaborates in both the aesthetic spheres in the crucial time span that goes from 1914 to 1916. As is well known, the Great War represents a situation exceptional that causes a sort of interruption and traumatic bewilderment destined to profoundly change the neo-Kantian philosophical context and to initiate from within it processes of revision of predominant themes and directions already consolidated over time towards a considerable arrangement of new orientations. In this scenario, Cohn takes a position by recovering the theme dear to him of aesthetics (in fact in 1901 – it is worth remembering – he was the author of an Allgemeine Ästhetik which remains – it can be peacefully affirmed – the first systematic work on the theme of the school of Baden) also and above all related to issues related to the religious. Also for Cohn the foundational plane of reference on which he argues these positions is that of the “critique of culture” to which the author will also dedicate an important monograph as early as 1914. This will also be an opportunity for the author to return to rethinking the notion of value in the light of the changed historical-epochal situation that sanctions the decline of the belle époque.