Gillian Rose on Neo-Kantianism

Dilthey, Heidegger, Mannheim, Benjamin and Gadamer have this criticism in common: the Neo-Kantian answers to the question of validity debase the question of being, reality, existence, life or history, by their propositional or judgmental account of truth and by the correlation between general logic and objectification. But these thinkers did not return to a trascendental logic in order to make the question of existence central again.... Dilthey, Mannheim, Heidegger and Gadamer return to the Kantian question of validitym "What are the pre-conditions of existence?", but judge that the Kantian reference to the categories and their application itself has a precondition: "life" (Dilthey), "social-situation" (Mannheim), "Dasein" (Heidegger), "history" (Gadamer). These become the presupposition of the use of the categories or of meaning, the "a priori" of a new kind of ontology

Gillian Rose, "Hegel: Contra Sociology", 1981