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Record Nr.

UNINA9910807332003321

Titolo

The philosophy of Ernst Cassirer : a novel assessment / / edited by J Tyler Friedman and Sebastian Luft

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Berlin, [Germany] : , : De Gruyter, , 2015

©2015

ISBN

3-11-042181-X

3-11-042183-6

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (482 p.)

Collana

New Studies in the History and Historiography of Philosophy, , 2364-3161 ; ; Volume 2

Disciplina

193

Soggetti

PHILOSOPHY / History & Surveys / Modern

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Includes indexes.

Nota di contenuto

Frontmatter -- Table of Contents -- Editors’ Introduction -- Ernst Cassirer and the History of Science -- From Mathematics to Quantum Mechanics – On the Conceptual Unity of Cassirer's Philosophy of Science (1907–1937) -- A Retrospective View of Determinism and Indeterminism in Modern Physics -- Holism and the Constitution of “Experience in its Entirety” Cassirer contra Quine on the Lessons of Duhem -- Arithmetic and Number in the Philosophy of Symbolic Forms -- Intersubjectivity and Physical Laws in Post-Kantian Theory of Knowledge Natorp and Cassirer -- Symbolic Form and Mental Illness: Ernst Cassirer’s Contribution to a New Concept of Psychopathology -- Marburg Neo-Kantianism as Philosophy of Culture -- Cassirer and Heidegger: The Cultural-Event The Auseinandersetzung of Thinking and Being -- Cassirer’s Retrieval of Kant’s Copernican Revolution in Semiotics -- The Concept of ‘Function’ in Cassirer’s Historical, Systematic, and Ethical Writings -- The Varieties of Perception Non-Conceptual Content in Kant, Cassirer, and McDowell -- The First and Second Person Perspective in History: Or, Why History is ‘Culture Fiction’ -- Cassirer’s Critique of Culture and the Several Tasks of the Critic -- The A Priori of Culture: Philosophy of Culture Between Rationalism and Relativism. The Example of Lévi-Strauss’ Structural Anthropology -- After Cassirer: Art and Aesthetic Symbols in Langer



and Goodman -- Humor as a Symbolic Form: Cassirer and the Culture of Comedy -- Cassirer on the “Objectity” of Evil The Symbolic Constitution of Der Mythus des 20 Jahrhunderts -- Subject index -- Index of names

Sommario/riassunto

This volume brings Cassirer’s work into the arena of contemporary debates both within and outside of philosophy. All articles offer a fresh and contemporary look at one of the most prolific and important philosophers of the 20th century. The papers are authored by a wide array of scholars working in different areas, such as epistemology, philosophy of culture, sociology, psychopathology, philosophy of science and aesthetics.