A Positive Future
David Simpson: Ernst Cassirer, 26 March 2009
Ernst Cassirer: The Last Philosopher of Culture
by Edward Skidelsky.
Princeton, 288 pp., £24.95, January 2009,978 0 691 13134 4 Show More
by Edward Skidelsky.
Princeton, 288 pp., £24.95, January 2009,
The Symbolic Construction of Reality: The Legacy of Ernst Cassirer
edited by Jeffrey Andrew Barash.
Chicago, 223 pp., £26.50, January 2009,978 0 226 03686 1 Show More
edited by Jeffrey Andrew Barash.
Chicago, 223 pp., £26.50, January 2009,
“... proved an unignorable source for current work, in the way that Heidegger and Wittgenstein have. Edward Skidelsky sees a recent positive shift in the winds of his reputation, but he is suspicious of the reasons for it. The very idealism and liberalism that make Cassirer seem to so many such an anachronism also render him newly appealing as the apostle ... ”