2. Cassirer’s Concept of a Philosophy of Human Culture

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Preface ix
4. Introduction xi
5. Abbreviations of Works by Ernst Cassirer xxix
6. Part One: Culture as a Philosophical Concept
7. 1. The Variety of Symbolic Worlds and the Unity of Mind 3
8. 2. Cassirer’s Concept of a Philosophy of Human Culture 19
9. 3. The Modern Concept of Culture as Indicator of a Metaphysical Problem 28
10. 4. Cassirer’s Symbolic Theory of Culture and the Historicization of Philosophy 35
11. Part Two: Problems in the Philosophical Interpretation of Culture
12. 5. ‘‘Art’’ and ‘‘Science’’ in The Philosophy of Symbolic Forms 49
13. 6. The Subject of Culture 61
14. 7. Styles of Change: Ernst Cassirer’s Philosophical Writing 78
15. Part Three: Comparative Studies
16. 8. Bakhtin and Cassirer: The Philosophical Origins of Carnival Messianism 99
17. 9. From Culture to Politics: The ‘‘Aufhebung’’ of Ethics in Ernst Cassirer’s Political Philosophy in Comparison with the ‘‘Political Theology’’ of Ernst Kantorowicz 117
18. 10. Speaking of Symbols: Affinities between Cassirer’s and Jung’s Theories of Language 127
19. 11. ‘‘Eine zarte Differenz’’: Cassirer on Goethe on the Symbol 157
20. 12. Goethe as Model for Cultural Values: Ernst Cassirer’s Essay on Thomas Mann’s Lotte in Weimar 185
21. Part Four: Cassirer’s Philosophical Outlook
22. 13. The Missing Core of Cassirer’s Philosophy: Homo Faber in Thin Air 203
23. 14. The Davos Disputation and Twentieth-Century Philosophy 227
24. 15. Why Did Cassirer and Heidegger Not Debate in Davos? 244
25. Appendix: How the Cassirer Papers to Yale 263
26. List of Contributors 271
27. Index 274