Ernst Cassirer : : The Dilemma of a Liberal Intellectual in Germany, 1914–33 /

Ernst Cassirer : : The Dilemma of a Liberal Intellectual in Germany, 1914–33 / / David Lipton.

This probing study of the career, works, and influence of Ernst Cassirer -- a German-Jewish neo-Kantian who taught at the University of Hamburg until Hitler came to power -- analyses his thoughts on human culture as they developed during the turbulent political and cultural conditions in the Germany...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Toronto Press eBook-Package Archive 1933-1999
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Lipton, David,
Place / Publishing House:Toronto : : University of Toronto Press, , [2019]
©1978
Year of Publication:2019
Language:English
Series:Heritage
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Physical Description:1 online resource (228 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Preface
  • Acknowledgments
  • 1. Introduction
  • PART I. Cassirer as a philosopher in Imperial Germany
  • 2. Marburgneo-Kantianism and Cassirer's pre-1914 writings
  • PART 2. Cassirer's intellectual reorientation into the humanities
  • 3. Kant reconsidered (1914-16)
  • 4. A cosmopolitan view of history ( 1916-18)
  • 5. Cassirer's synthesis of Kant and Hegel (1918-19)
  • 6. The origin of the philosophy of symbolic forms (1919-22)
  • PART 3. Cassirer's Weimar period
  • 7. Intellectual equilibrium (1923-6): ideological background
  • 8. Intellectual equilibrium (1923-6): the philosophy of symbolic forms
  • 9. The Weimar cultural milieu (1900-33)
  • 10. Cassirer's final defence of reason in Germany (1927-33)
  • 11. Epilogue and conclusion
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Index

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