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The Philosophy of Ernst Cassirer : A Novel Assessment / ed. by J Tyler Friedman, Sebastian Luft.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: New Studies in the History and Historiography of Philosophy ; 2Publisher: Berlin ; Boston : De Gruyter, [2015]Copyright date: ©2015Description: 1 online resource (475 p.)Content type:
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  • 9783110419542
  • 9783110421835
  • 9783110421811
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Contents:
Frontmatter -- Table of Contents -- Editors’ Introduction -- Part I: Cassirer and the Philosophy of Science -- Ernst Cassirer and the History of Science -- From Mathematics to Quantum Mechanics – On the Conceptual Unity of Cassirer's Philosophy of Science (1907–1937) -- A Retrospective View of Determinism and Indeterminism in Modern Physics -- Holism and the Constitution of “Experience in its Entirety” Cassirer contra Quine on the Lessons of Duhem -- Arithmetic and Number in the Philosophy of Symbolic Forms -- Intersubjectivity and Physical Laws in Post-Kantian Theory of Knowledge Natorp and Cassirer -- Symbolic Form and Mental Illness: Ernst Cassirer’s Contribution to a New Concept of Psychopathology -- Part II: Epistemology and the History of Philosophy -- Marburg Neo-Kantianism as Philosophy of Culture -- Cassirer and Heidegger: The Cultural-Event The Auseinandersetzung of Thinking and Being -- Cassirer’s Retrieval of Kant’s Copernican Revolution in Semiotics -- The Concept of ‘Function’ in Cassirer’s Historical, Systematic, and Ethical Writings -- The Varieties of Perception Non-Conceptual Content in Kant, Cassirer, and McDowell -- Part III: The Philosophy of Culture Today -- The First and Second Person Perspective in History: Or, Why History is ‘Culture Fiction’ -- Cassirer’s Critique of Culture and the Several Tasks of the Critic -- The A Priori of Culture: Philosophy of Culture Between Rationalism and Relativism. The Example of Lévi-Strauss’ Structural Anthropology -- After Cassirer: Art and Aesthetic Symbols in Langer and Goodman -- Humor as a Symbolic Form: Cassirer and the Culture of Comedy -- Cassirer on the “Objectity” of Evil The Symbolic Constitution of Der Mythus des 20 Jahrhunderts -- Subject index -- Index of names
Summary: This volume brings Cassirer’s work into the arena of contemporary debates both within and outside of philosophy. All articles offer a fresh and contemporary look at one of the most prolific and important philosophers of the 20th century. The papers are authored by a wide array of scholars working in different areas, such as epistemology, philosophy of culture, sociology, psychopathology, philosophy of science and aesthetics.

Frontmatter -- Table of Contents -- Editors’ Introduction -- Part I: Cassirer and the Philosophy of Science -- Ernst Cassirer and the History of Science -- From Mathematics to Quantum Mechanics – On the Conceptual Unity of Cassirer's Philosophy of Science (1907–1937) -- A Retrospective View of Determinism and Indeterminism in Modern Physics -- Holism and the Constitution of “Experience in its Entirety” Cassirer contra Quine on the Lessons of Duhem -- Arithmetic and Number in the Philosophy of Symbolic Forms -- Intersubjectivity and Physical Laws in Post-Kantian Theory of Knowledge Natorp and Cassirer -- Symbolic Form and Mental Illness: Ernst Cassirer’s Contribution to a New Concept of Psychopathology -- Part II: Epistemology and the History of Philosophy -- Marburg Neo-Kantianism as Philosophy of Culture -- Cassirer and Heidegger: The Cultural-Event The Auseinandersetzung of Thinking and Being -- Cassirer’s Retrieval of Kant’s Copernican Revolution in Semiotics -- The Concept of ‘Function’ in Cassirer’s Historical, Systematic, and Ethical Writings -- The Varieties of Perception Non-Conceptual Content in Kant, Cassirer, and McDowell -- Part III: The Philosophy of Culture Today -- The First and Second Person Perspective in History: Or, Why History is ‘Culture Fiction’ -- Cassirer’s Critique of Culture and the Several Tasks of the Critic -- The A Priori of Culture: Philosophy of Culture Between Rationalism and Relativism. The Example of Lévi-Strauss’ Structural Anthropology -- After Cassirer: Art and Aesthetic Symbols in Langer and Goodman -- Humor as a Symbolic Form: Cassirer and the Culture of Comedy -- Cassirer on the “Objectity” of Evil The Symbolic Constitution of Der Mythus des 20 Jahrhunderts -- Subject index -- Index of names

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This volume brings Cassirer’s work into the arena of contemporary debates both within and outside of philosophy. All articles offer a fresh and contemporary look at one of the most prolific and important philosophers of the 20th century. The papers are authored by a wide array of scholars working in different areas, such as epistemology, philosophy of culture, sociology, psychopathology, philosophy of science and aesthetics.

Issued also in print.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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