| Full name | Emil Lask |
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| Born | 25 September 1875 Wadowitz, Austria-Hungary (now Wadowice, Poland) |
| Died | 26 May 1915 Turza-Mała in Galicia |
| Era | 20th-century philosophy |
| Region | Western Philosophy |
| School | Neo-Kantianism |
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Emil Lask (September 25, 1875 – May 26, 1915) was a German philosopher. A student of Rickert at Freiburg, he was a member of the Southwestern School of Neo-Kantianism.
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Lask was made lecturer at Heidelberg in 1905, and he was elected professor there just before the outbreak of The Great War. Lask died during the war, not far from the city of his birth, in the Galician Campaign.
Lask was an important and original thinker whose rewarding work is little known, due to his early death, but also because of the decline of Neo-Kantianism. He is no easy read. His published and some unpublished writings were collected in a three volume edition by his pupil Eugen Herrigel with a notice by Lask's former teacher Rickert in 1923 and 1924. Emil Lask is of interest to philosophers because of his uncompromising attitude and to historians of philosophy because of his influence on the young Martin Heidegger, and also on Georg Lukacs. His ideas were also influential in Japan, due to Eugen Herrigel, who lived and taught there for several years.
His sister was the communist poet Berta Lask.