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1 online resource (vi, 475 pages). |
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polychrome |
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text file |
| Series |
New studies in the history and historiography of philosophy,
2364-3161 ;
Volume 2
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New studies in the history and historiography of philosophy ; 2.
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| Summary |
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. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Part I: Cassirer and the philosophy of science. Ernst Cassirer and the history of science / Massimo Ferrari -- From mathematics to quantum mechanics - on the conceptual unity of Cassirer's philosophy of science (1907-1937) / Thomas Mormann -- A retrospective view of determinism and indeterminism in modern physics / Thomas Ryckman -- Holism and the constitution of "Experience in its entirety" Cassirer contra Quine on the lessons of Duhem / Alan W. Richardson -- Arithmetic and number in the philosophy of symbolic forms / Jeremy Heis -- Intersubjectivity and physical laws in post-Kantian theory of knowledge Natorp and Cassirer / Scott Edgar -- Symbolic form and mental illness: Ernst Cassirer's contribution to a new concept of psychopathology / Norbert Andersch. |
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Part II: Epistemology and the History of Philosophy. Marburg neo-Kantianism as philosophy of culture / Samantha Matherne -- Cassirer and Heidegger: the cultural-event The Auseinandersetzung of thinking and being / Steve G. Lofts -- Cassirer's retrieval of Kant's Copernican revolution in semiotics / Pierre Keller -- The concept of 'function' in Cassirer's historical, systematic, and ethical writings / Simon Truwant -- The varieties of perception non-conceptual content in Kant, Cassirer, and McDowell / Guido Kreis. |
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Part III. The philosophy of culture today. The first and second person perspective in history: Or, why history is 'culture fiction' / Anne Pollok -- Cassirer's critique of culture and the several tasks of the critic / J. Tyler Friedman -- ; The A Priori of culture: philosophy of culture between rationalism and relativism. The Example of Lévi-Strauss' Structural Anthropology / Sebastian Luft -- After Cassirer: art and aesthetic symbols in Langer and Goodman / Curtis L. Carter -- Humor as a symbolic form: Cassirer and the culture of comedy / Jennifer Marra -- Cassirer on the "objectity" of evil, the symbolic constitution of Der Mythus des 20 Jahrhunderts / Fabien Capeillères. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Cassirer, Ernst, 1874-1945.
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Cassirer, Ernst, 1874-1945. |
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Electronic books.
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| Added Author |
Friedman, J. Tyler, 1987- editor.
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Luft, Sebastian, editor.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Philosophy of Ernst Cassirer. Germany ; Boston : De Gruyter, 2015 9783110419542 (DLC) 2015017355 (OCoLC)908554463 |
| ISBN |
9783110421811 (electronic book) |
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311042181X (electronic book) |
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9783110421828 (electronic book) |
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3110421828 (electronic book) |
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9783110421835 (electronic book) |
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3110421836 (electronic book) |
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9783110419542 (hardcover) |
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3110419548 (hardcover) |
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