Ernst Cassirer : The Last Philosopher of Culture /
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 Cassir...
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Format: | Électronique eBook |
Langue: | Inglés |
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Princeton :
Princeton University Press,
2008.
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Collection: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Accès en ligne: | Texto completo |
Résumé: | 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. |
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Description matérielle: | 1 online resource (304 pages). |
ISBN: | 9781400828944 |