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

Published
Berlin ; Boston : De Gruyter, [2015]
Copyright Date
©2015
Physical Description
1 online resource (vi, 475 pages).
Additional Creators
Friedman, J. Tyler, 1987- and Luft, Sebastian
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Language Note
In English.
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., 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., and 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.
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.
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ISBN
9783110421811 (electronic bk.)
311042181X (electronic bk.)
9783110421828 (electronic bk.)
3110421828 (electronic bk.)
9783110421835 (electronic bk.)
3110421836 (electronic bk.)
9783110419542 (hardcover)
3110419548 (hardcover)
Bibliography Note
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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