On the Way to the Revival of Metaphysics: S.L. Frank and E. Coreth

Abstract

Readers are invited to review the monograph of the modern German researcher Oksana Nazarova
“The problem of the renaissance and new foundation of metaphysics through the example of
Christian philosophical tradition. Russian religious philosophy (Simon L. Frank) and German
neosholastics (Emerich Coreth)”, which was published in 2017 in Munich. In the paper, the author
offers a comparative analysis of the projects of a new, “post-dogmatic” metaphysics, which were
developed in the philosophy of Frank and Coreth. This study addresses the problems of the cognitivetheoretical and ontological foundation of the renaissance of metaphysics, the methodological tools of
the new metaphysics, as well as its anthropological component. O. Nazarova’s book is based on the
comparative analysis of Frank’s religious philosophy and Coreth’s neo-cholastic philosophy from
the beginning to the end. This makes the study unique in its own way. Since earlier in the German
reception of the heritage of Russian thinker, the comparison of Frank’s philosophy with the Catholic
theology of the 20th century was realized only fragmentarily and did not act as a fundamental one.
Along with a deep and meaningful analysis of the metaphysical projects of both thinkers, this makes
O. Nazarova’s book relevant to anyone who is interested in the philosophical dialogue of Russia and
Western Europe and is engaged in the work of Frank and Coreth.