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Ernst Cassirer : The Last Philosopher of Culture / Edward Skidelsky.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press, [2011]Copyright date: ©2008Edition: Course BookDescription: 1 online resource (304 p.)Content type:
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ISBN:
  • 9780691152356
  • 9781400828944
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 193 22
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  • Internet Access ASAV
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  • online - DeGruyter
Online resources: Available additional physical forms:
  • Issued also in print.
Contents:
Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- INTRODUCTION -- One. Prologue: The Alienation of Reason -- Two. The Marburg School -- Three. The New Logic -- Four. Between Irony and Tragedy -- Five. The Philosophy of Symbolic Forms -- Six. Logical Positivism -- Seven. The Philosophy of Life -- Eight. Heidegger -- Nine. Politics -- NOTES -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- INDEX
Summary: This is the first English-language intellectual biography of the German-Jewish philosopher Ernst Cassirer (1874-1945), a leading figure on the Weimar intellectual scene and one of the last and finest representatives of the liberal-idealist tradition. Edward Skidelsky traces the development of Cassirer's thought in its historical and intellectual setting. He presents Cassirer, the author of The Philosophy of Symbolic Forms, as a defender of the liberal ideal of culture in an increasingly fragmented world, and as someone who grappled with the opposing forces of scientific positivism and romantic vitalism. Cassirer's work can be seen, Skidelsky argues, as offering a potential resolution to the ongoing conflict between the "two cultures" of science and the humanities--and between the analytic and continental traditions in philosophy. The first comprehensive study of Cassirer in English in two decades, this book will be of great interest to analytic and continental philosophers, intellectual historians, political and cultural theorists, and historians of twentieth-century Germany.
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Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- INTRODUCTION -- One. Prologue: The Alienation of Reason -- Two. The Marburg School -- Three. The New Logic -- Four. Between Irony and Tragedy -- Five. The Philosophy of Symbolic Forms -- Six. Logical Positivism -- Seven. The Philosophy of Life -- Eight. Heidegger -- Nine. Politics -- NOTES -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- INDEX

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This is the first English-language intellectual biography of the German-Jewish philosopher Ernst Cassirer (1874-1945), a leading figure on the Weimar intellectual scene and one of the last and finest representatives of the liberal-idealist tradition. Edward Skidelsky traces the development of Cassirer's thought in its historical and intellectual setting. He presents Cassirer, the author of The Philosophy of Symbolic Forms, as a defender of the liberal ideal of culture in an increasingly fragmented world, and as someone who grappled with the opposing forces of scientific positivism and romantic vitalism. Cassirer's work can be seen, Skidelsky argues, as offering a potential resolution to the ongoing conflict between the "two cultures" of science and the humanities--and between the analytic and continental traditions in philosophy. The first comprehensive study of Cassirer in English in two decades, this book will be of great interest to analytic and continental philosophers, intellectual historians, political and cultural theorists, and historians of twentieth-century Germany.

Issued also in print.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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