The Philosophy of Ernst Cassirer : : A Novel Assessment / / ed. by J Tyler Friedman, Sebastian Luft.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DG Plus DeG Package 2015 Part 1
• MitwirkendeR: Andersch, Norbert,; Capeillères, Fabien,; Carter, Curtis L.,; Edgar, Scott,; Ferrari, Massimo,; Friedman, J Tyler,; Heis, Jeremy,; Keller, Pierre,; Kreis, Guido,; Lofts, Steve G.,; Luft, Sebastian,; Marra, Jennifer,; Matherne, Samantha,; Mormann, Thomas,; Pollok, Anne,; Richardson, Alan W.,; Ryckman, Thomas,; Truwant, Simon,
• HerausgeberIn: Friedman, J Tyler,; Luft, Sebastian,
• Place / Publishing House: Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter, , [2015]; ©2015
• Year of Publication: 2015
• Language: English
• Series: New Studies in the History and Historiography of Philosophy , 2
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (475 p.)

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.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Table of Contents -- Editors’ Introduction -- Part I: Cassirer and the Philosophy of Science -- Ernst Cassirer and the History of Science -- From Mathematics to Quantum Mechanics – On the Conceptual Unity of Cassirer's Philosophy of Science (1907–1937) -- A Retrospective View of Determinism and Indeterminism in Modern Physics -- Holism and the Constitution of “Experience in its Entirety” Cassirer contra Quine on the Lessons of Duhem -- Arithmetic and Number in the Philosophy of Symbolic Forms -- Intersubjectivity and Physical Laws in Post-Kantian Theory of Knowledge Natorp and Cassirer -- Symbolic Form and Mental Illness: Ernst Cassirer’s Contribution to a New Concept of Psychopathology -- Part II: Epistemology and the History of Philosophy -- Marburg Neo-Kantianism as Philosophy of Culture -- Cassirer and Heidegger: The Cultural-Event The Auseinandersetzung of Thinking and Being -- Cassirer’s Retrieval of Kant’s Copernican Revolution in Semiotics -- The Concept of ‘Function’ in Cassirer’s Historical, Systematic, and Ethical Writings -- The Varieties of Perception Non-Conceptual Content in Kant, Cassirer, and McDowell -- Part III: The Philosophy of Culture Today -- The First and Second Person Perspective in History: Or, Why History is ‘Culture Fiction’ -- Cassirer’s Critique of Culture and the Several Tasks of the Critic -- The A Priori of Culture: Philosophy of Culture Between Rationalism and Relativism. The Example of Lévi-Strauss’ Structural Anthropology -- After Cassirer: Art and Aesthetic Symbols in Langer and Goodman -- Humor as a Symbolic Form: Cassirer and the Culture of Comedy -- Cassirer on the “Objectity” of Evil The Symbolic Constitution of Der Mythus des 20 Jahrhunderts -- Subject index -- Index of names