The Philosophy of Ernst Cassirer: A Novel Assessment

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The Philosophy of Ernst Cassirer

A Novel Assessment

Edited by: J Tyler Friedman and Sebastian Luft

Language: English

Published/Copyright: 2015

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Volume 2 | New Studies in the History and Historiography of Philosophy

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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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J. Tyler Friedman and Sebastian Luft, Marquette University, Milwaukee, WI, USA.

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	I
Table of Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	V
Editors’ Introduction Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	1
Part I: Cassirer and the Philosophy of Science
Ernst Cassirer and the History of Science Massimo Ferrari Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	11
From Mathematics to Quantum Mechanics – On the Conceptual Unity of Cassirer's Philosophy of Science (1907–1937) Thomas Mormann Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	31
A Retrospective View of Determinism and Indeterminism in Modern Physics Thomas Ryckman Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	65
Holism and the Constitution of “Experience in its Entirety” Cassirer contra Quine on the Lessons of Duhem Alan W. Richardson Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	103
Arithmetic and Number in the Philosophy of Symbolic Forms Jeremy Heis Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	123
Intersubjectivity and Physical Laws in Post-Kantian Theory of Knowledge Natorp and Cassirer Scott Edgar Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	141
Symbolic Form and Mental Illness: Ernst Cassirer’s Contribution to a New Concept of Psychopathology Norbert Andersch Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	163
Part II: Epistemology and the History of Philosophy
Marburg Neo-Kantianism as Philosophy of Culture Samantha Matherne Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	201
Cassirer and Heidegger: The Cultural-Event The Auseinandersetzung of Thinking and Being Steve G. Lofts Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	233
Cassirer’s Retrieval of Kant’s Copernican Revolution in Semiotics Pierre Keller Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	259
The Concept of ‘Function’ in Cassirer’s Historical, Systematic, and Ethical Writings Simon Truwant Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	289
The Varieties of Perception Non-Conceptual Content in Kant, Cassirer, and McDowell Guido Kreis Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	313
Part III: The Philosophy of Culture Today
The First and Second Person Perspective in History: Or, Why History is ‘Culture Fiction’ Anne Pollok Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	341
Cassirer’s Critique of Culture and the Several Tasks of the Critic J Tyler Friedman Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	361
The A Priori of Culture: Philosophy of Culture Between Rationalism and Relativism. The Example of Lévi-Strauss’ Structural Anthropology Sebastian Luft Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	381
After Cassirer: Art and Aesthetic Symbols in Langer and Goodman Curtis L. Carter Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	401
Humor as a Symbolic Form: Cassirer and the Culture of Comedy Jennifer Marra Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	419
Cassirer on the “Objectity” of Evil The Symbolic Constitution of Der Mythus des 20 Jahrhunderts Fabien Capeillères Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	435
Subject index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	469
Index of names Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	473

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June 16, 2015

eBook ISBN:

9783110421811

Hardcover published on:

May 29, 2015

Hardcover ISBN:

9783110419542

Paperback published on:

June 26, 2017

Paperback ISBN:

9783110554779

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6

Main content:

475

https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110421811

eBook ISBN: 9783110421811

Hardcover ISBN: 9783110419542

Paperback ISBN: 9783110554779

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Philosophy of culture; phenomenology of knowledge

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Scholars (20th century philosophy; Continental philosophy; aesthetics; Neo-Kantianism), institutes, libraries

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