Interpreting Cassirer
Interpreting Cassirer
This is the first comprehensive volume in English on Cassirer's philosophy for over seventy years. Eleven leading Cassirer scholars address all of the key aspects of Cassirer's multi-faceted thought and situate them in the wider context of his philosophy of culture. Their essays demonstrate the depth and richness of a philosophical enterprise that still awaits recognition as one of the most original contributions to twentieth-century philosophy. Interpreting Cassirer will prove invaluable not only for Cassirer scholars and researchers of early twentieth-century philosophy, but also for scholars of the philosophy of culture, language, science, art, history, and mind.
- Addresses the systematic, historical, and methodological novelties of Cassirer's thought
- Informed by the broadest and most up-to-date scholarship on Cassirer, and can thus serve as a first introduction to his thought
- Contains insightful contributions about lesser known aspects of Cassirer's thought, such as his view of contemporary physics or technology
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'This volume is strong both in its explication of the basic themes contained in Cassirer's texts as well as in providing diverse and unique interpretations of these texts. … in a similar way, this volume should appeal to both Analytic and Continental readers of Kant and the Neo-Kantians. It exemplifies the very breadth that Cassirer practiced in his substantial and exciting intellectual career.' Jeffrey A. Bernstein, Metascience
Product details
November 2022Paperback
9781108733878
261 pages
229 × 152 × 14 mm
0.384kg
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Table of Contents
- Introduction
- I. Cassirer's Philosophy of Culture: The Interaction between Language and the other Symbolic Forms Robert Leib
- 2. The Status of Art in Cassirer's System of Culture Samantha Matherne
- 3. Being in Time: History as an Expression and Interpretation of Human Culture Anne Pollok
- 4. Science as a Symbolic Form: Ernst Cassirer's Culture of Reason Massimo Ferrari
- 5. Quantum Mechanics as the Ultimate Mode of Symbol Formation: The Final Stage of Cassirer's Philosophy of Physical Science Thomas Ryckman
- 6. Spirit in the Age of Technical Production Nicolas de Warren
- 7. Political Myth and the Problem of Orientation: Reading Cassirer in Times of Cultural Crisis Simon Truwant
- II. Cassirer's Philosophy of Consciousness:
- 8. Rethinking Representation: Cassirer's Philosophy of Human Perceiving, Thinking, and Understanding Martina Plümacher
- 9. Cassirer's Philosophy of Mind: From Consciousness to 'Objective Spirit' Guido Kreis
- III: Cassirer's Philosophical Method:
- 10. Cassirer's Phenomenological Affinities Daniel D. Dahlstrom
- 11.Cassirer's Place in Today's Philosophical Landscape: 'Synthetic Philosophy', Transcendental Idealism, Cultural Pluralism Sebastian Luft.
