School of subjective idealist philosophy that arose in Germany in the 1850–1860s and advocated the revival of Kant’s philosophy. In 1865, the German philosopher Liebmann advocated the complete abandonment of all the philosophy of imitation after Kant in his book Kant und die Epigonen, A Critique of the Followers of Kant Urging A Return to Their Master (Kant and His Inferior Successors) and put forth the slogan “Back to Kant”, marking the birth of the philosophy of neo-Kantianism. In addition to Liebmann, the early representatives of neo-Kantianism included Lange, Fisher and Zeller…
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