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 AndrewBarash.
Chicago, 223 pp., £26.50, January 2009,978 0 226 03686 1 Show More
edited by Jeffrey AndrewBarash.
Chicago, 223 pp., £26.50, January 2009,
“... of the ethical and the aesthetic. Cassirer wants to adapt the symbol to an epistemology, which Jeffrey Barash in his introduction to The Symbolic Construction of Reality rightly deems quite un-Kantian. Cassirer is interested in clarifying the sense of an unknown but substantial connection that comes along with the symbol, making him what Enno Rudolph ... ”
