Gregory B. Moynahan

Ernst Cassirer and the Critical Science of Germany, 1899-1919 (eBook, PDF)

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Produktbeschreibung

Recovering a lost world of the politics of science in Imperial Germany, Gregory B. Moynahan revisits the work of the philosopher and historian Ernst Cassirer (1874-1945) and explores his relations with the Marburg School of Hermann Cohen. "Ernst Cassirer and the Critical Science of Germany, 1899-1919" covers the epochal transformations of the natural sciences at the turn of the century, and reveals Cassirer's view of an emergent mode of understanding based purely on relational structure which, he perceived, could be applied fruitfully to the social sciences and humanities, or human sciences, "Geisteswissenschaften."

Moynahan relates that the result was a permanently fluid but rule-based definition of the permutation of objects and subjects, as well as knowledge and reality, within different fields of knowledge. Cassirer's project placed the development of the sciences, "Wissenschaften," within a wide historical and ethical ambit, and sought to establish a new definition of experience, society and modernity; this project, Cassirer argued, was pivotal to the future of Germany. On this basis, Moynahan posits that Cassirer's early work furthered the foundation of a distinctly Central European argument for democracy, liberalism and civil rights. [NP] Moynahan defends Cassirer's critique as formative in the origins of twentieth-century social sciences, philosophy of science and law, and he argues for its direct relevance to a generation of scholars before the Second World War (including Elias, Kelsen and Panofsky), as well as after (such as Blumenberg, Foucault and Luhmann). The only text in English to focus on the first half of the polymath Cassirer's career, this work illuminates one of the most important - and in English, least-studied - reform movements in Imperial Germany.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Anthem Press
• Seitenzahl: 300
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. Juli 2013
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780857283436
• Artikelnr.: 44360980

Autorenporträt

Gregory B. Moynahan is associate professor of history and co-director of the Science, Technology and Society Program at Bard College, New York, USA.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments; List of Abbreviations; Introduction: "Reading a Mute
History": Ernst Cassirer, the Marburg School and the Crises of Modern
Germany; PART I: THE MARBURG SCHOOL AND THE POLITICS OF SCIENCE IN GERMANY:
Chapter One: The Twentieth-Century Conflict of the Faculties: The Marburg
School and the Reform of the Sciences; Chapter Two: Cassirer and the
Marburg School in the Administrative and Political Context of the
"Kaiserreich"; Chapter Three: "The Supreme Principles of Knowledge":
Cassirer's Transformation of the Tenets of Cohen's "Infinitesimal Method"
(1882) and "System of Philosophy" (1902-1912); PART II: CRITICAL SCIENCE
AND MODERNITY: Chapter Four: Leibniz and the Foundation of Critical
Science: "Leibniz's System in its Scientific Foundations" (1902); Chapter
Five: Science and History in Cassirer's "Substance and Function" (1910);
PART III: LIBERAL DEMOCRACY AND LAW: Chapter Six: Liberalism and the
Conflict of Forms: "The Knowledge Problem" (1906-1940) and "Freedom and
Form" (1916); Chapter Seven: Law as Science and the "Coming-into-Being" of
Natural Right in Cohen, Cassirer and Kelsen Conclusion Critical Science,
the Future of Humanity and the Riddle of "An Essay on Man" (1944); Index