Abstrakt
It is of course undeniable that a great interest in Lotze's philosophy has characterized -by and large- early 20th century scholarship: the problem is that, even if such interest was not a "marginal" one, it was nevertheless confined to a series of circumscribed topics which almost exclusively revolved around "logical" questions and, in particular, the famous notion of "validity" (Geltung). The interest in the phenomenological movement played, of course, a fundamental role in fostering this line of study and research, just like the debate between Michael Dummett and Hans Sluga about Lotze and his more or less alleged influence on Gottlob Frege (which, perhaps for the first time and in quite a systematic way, contributed to raising the question as to the historical roots of analytic philosophy within the framework of late 19th century German philosophy).