Gregory B. Moynahan

Ernst Cassirer and the Critical Science of Germany, 1899-1919

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Reconstructing the relationship between science and politics in Imperial Germany, this book covers the early work of the philosopher and historian Ernst Cassirer (1874-1945) and discusses his relation to the Marburg School of philosophy.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Anthem Press
• Seitenzahl: 278
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Dezember 2014
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 16mm
• Gewicht: 456g
• ISBN-13: 9781783083435
• ISBN-10: 1783083433
• Artikelnr.: 41369219

Autorenporträt

Gregory B. Moynahan

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