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Ernst Cassirer and the critical science of Germany : 1899-1919 /

Recovering a lost world of the politics of science in Imperial Germany, Gregory B. Moynahan revisits the work of the philosopher and historian Ernst Cassirer (1874-1945) and explores his relations with the Marburg School of Hermann Cohen. "Ernst Cassirer and the Critical Science of Germany, 189...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Moynahan, Gregory B., 1966-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York City : Anthem Press, 2013.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction "reading a mute history": Ernst Cassirer, the Marburg School and the crises of modern Germany
  • The Marburg School and the politics of science in Germany
  • The twentieth-century conflict of the faculties: the Marburg School and the reform of the sciences
  • Cassirer and the Marburg School in the administrative and political context of the Kaiserreich
  • "The supreme principles of knowledge": Cassirer's transformation of the tenets of Cohen's infinitesimal method (1882) and system of philosophy (1902-1912)
  • Critical science and modernity
  • Leibniz and the foundation of critical science: Leibniz's system in its scientific foundations
  • Science and history in Cassirer"s substance and function
  • Liberal democracy and law
  • Liberalism and the conflict of forms: the knowledge problem (1906-1940) and freedom and form
  • Law as science and the "coming-into-being" of natural right in Cohen, Cassirer and Kelsen
  • Conclusion critical science, the future of humanity and the riddle of an essay on man.