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035 _a(DE-B1597)9781487576370
035 _a(DE-B1597)537058
035 _a(OCoLC)1129186082
040 _aDE-B1597
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050 4 _aB3216.C34
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082 0 4 _a193
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084 _aonline - DeGruyter
100 1 _aLipton, David
_eautore
245 1 0 _aErnst Cassirer :
_bThe Dilemma of a Liberal Intellectual in Germany, 1914-33 /
_cDavid Lipton.
264 1 _aToronto :
_bUniversity of Toronto Press,
_c[1978]
264 4 _c©1978
300 _a1 online resource (228 p.)
336 _atext
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337 _acomputer
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338 _aonline resource
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347 _atext file
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490 0 _aHeritage
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520 _aThis probing study of the career, works, and influence of Ernst Cassirer -- a German-Jewish neo-Kantian who taught at the University of Hamburg until Hitler came to power -- analyses his thoughts on human culture as they developed during the turbulent political and cultural conditions in the Germany of his time. The most striking characteristic for Cassirer's life and work was his belief in the freedom of the individual and in the necessary connection between individual freedom and the primacy of reason in human history. Cassirer wanted to pass on his contemporaries the courage to use their own reason. His failure to create the lasting world view based on these ideas reflected a dilemma confronting many liberal intellectuals on the European continent. The author examines several distinct phases in Cassirer's career. Part I deals with Cassirer as a philosopher of Imperial Germany and examines his early neo-Kantian writings (1899-1914). Part 2 covers the years 1914-22 and the reorientation of Cassirer's intellectual standpoint in connection with the issues arising within the German academic community and his reaction to the war of 1914-18. Part 3 covers the Weimar period, 1922-33, observing how Cassirer tried to unite all his past and contemporary intellectual activities with his liberal political ideas in order to create a durable critique of human culture. The final chapter, dealing with the period from 1933 to 1945, when he was a political refugee, presents an epilogue to Cassirer's philosophical career in Germany outlining his hesitant reappraisal of his earlier work in the light of the consequences of the rise and fall of Hitler's Third Reich. An accomplished piece of intellectual history, this book provides a sensitive study of Cassirer's work and its context in the crisis of European civilization between 1914 and 1945.
538 _aMode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
546 _aIn English.
588 0 _aDescription based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 01. Nov 2023)
650 0 _aPhilosophers
_zGermany
_vBiography.
650 7 _aPHILOSOPHY / History & Surveys / Modern.
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850 _aIT-RoAPU
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