Ernst Cassirer : the last philosopher of culture /
Skidelsky, Edward,
Ernst Cassirer : the last philosopher of culture / Edward Skidelsky. - Princeton : Princeton University Press, ©2008. - 1 online resource (viii, 288 pages)
Includes bibliographical references (pages 269-279) and index.
Prologue : the alienation of reason -- The Marburg school -- The new logic -- Between irony and tragedy -- The philosophy of symbolic forms -- Logical positivism -- The philosophy of life -- Heidegger -- Politics.
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.
English.
9781400828944 (electronic bk.) 1400828945 (electronic bk.) 1283227398 9781283227391 (hardcover ; alk. paper) 9786613227393 6613227390
22573/cttsm0p JSTOR
Cassirer, Ernst, 1874-1945.
Cassirer, Ernst, 1874-1945.
Cassirer, Ernst, 1874-1945.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY--General.
PHILOSOPHY--History & Surveys--Modern.
PHILOSOPHY--General.
Philosophy & Religion.
Philosophy.
Electronic books.
B3216.C34 / S55 2008eb
193
Ernst Cassirer : the last philosopher of culture / Edward Skidelsky. - Princeton : Princeton University Press, ©2008. - 1 online resource (viii, 288 pages)
Includes bibliographical references (pages 269-279) and index.
Prologue : the alienation of reason -- The Marburg school -- The new logic -- Between irony and tragedy -- The philosophy of symbolic forms -- Logical positivism -- The philosophy of life -- Heidegger -- Politics.
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.
English.
9781400828944 (electronic bk.) 1400828945 (electronic bk.) 1283227398 9781283227391 (hardcover ; alk. paper) 9786613227393 6613227390
22573/cttsm0p JSTOR
Cassirer, Ernst, 1874-1945.
Cassirer, Ernst, 1874-1945.
Cassirer, Ernst, 1874-1945.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY--General.
PHILOSOPHY--History & Surveys--Modern.
PHILOSOPHY--General.
Philosophy & Religion.
Philosophy.
Electronic books.
B3216.C34 / S55 2008eb
193