Abstract

In the early twentieth century, the German author and philosopher Salomo Friedlaender, known as Mynona and especially active in the Berlin DADA movement, produced several texts that clarified and revised the critical philosophy of Immanuel Kant. Friedlaender's philosophical writings targeted the limited scope of sensory knowledge employed in modern empirical scientific practice. Friedlaender's engagements with art, science, and philosophy were inspired by a unique reading of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe's early-nineteenth-century work on vision.