Ernst Cassirer : The Dilemma of a Liberal Intellectual in Germany, 1914-33 /

This 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...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Lipton, David (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Toronto : University of Toronto Press, [2019]
Colección:Heritage
Temas:
Philosophers > Germany > Biography.
PHILOSOPHY / History & Surveys / Modern.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Preface
  • Acknowledgments
  • 1. Introduction
  • PART I. Cassirer as a philosopher in Imperial Germany
  • 2. Marburgneo-Kantianism and Cassirer's pre-1914 writings
  • PART 2. Cassirer's intellectual reorientation into the humanities
  • 3. Kant reconsidered (1914-16)
  • 4. A cosmopolitan view of history ( 1916-18)
  • 5. Cassirer's synthesis of Kant and Hegel (1918-19)
  • 6. The origin of the philosophy of symbolic forms (1919-22)
  • PART 3. Cassirer's Weimar period
  • 7. Intellectual equilibrium (1923-6): ideological background
  • 8. Intellectual equilibrium (1923-6): the philosophy of symbolic forms
  • 9. The Weimar cultural milieu (1900-33)
  • 10. Cassirer's final defence of reason in Germany (1927-33)
  • 11. Epilogue and conclusion
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Index

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