Ernst Cassirer
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The Philosophy of Ernst Cassirer
(Volume VI, 1949)
The core of this exciting volume is composed of twenty-three searching and illuminating articles in which Cassirer's investigations, thought, values, and conclusions are defined, examined, and critically evaluated. These include his work on Kant, his contributions to the epistemology of physics and mathematics, his philosophy of the social sciences and of symbolic forms, his studies of mythology, of language and myth, his humanism, his concern with art and literature, and his theory of history.
Table of Contents
Dimitry Gawronsky: Ernst Cassirer: His Life and His Work
Four Addresses, delivered at Memorial Services, Columbia University:
Edward Case: In Memoriam: Ernst Cassirer ~ A poem
Hajo Holborn: Ernst Cassirer
F. Saxl: Ernst Cassirer
Charles W. Hendel: Ernst Cassirer
(Replies follow essays)
C. Hendrik J. Pos: Recollections of Ernst Cassirer
Carl H. Hamburg: Cassirer's Conception of Philosophy
William Curtis Swabey: Cassirer and Metaphysics
I.K. Stephens: Cassirer's Doctrine of the A Priori
Felix Kaufmann: Cassirer's Theory of Scientific Knowledge
Dimitry Gawronsky: Cassirer's Contribution to the Epistemology of Physics
Harold R. Smart: Cassirer's Theory of Mathematical Concepts
Kurt Lewin: Cassirer's Philosophy of Science and the Social Sciences
Robert S. Hartman: Cassirer's Philosophy of Symbolic Forms
Folke Leander: Further Problems Suggested by the Philosophy of Symbolic Forms
M.F. Ashley Montagu: Cassirer on Mythological Thinking
Susanne K. Langer: On Cassirer's Theory of Language and Myth
Wilbur M. Urban: Cassirer's Philosophy of Language
James Gutmann: Cassirer's Humanism
David Bidney: The Philosophical Anthropology of Ernst Cassirer and Its Significance in Relation to the History of Anthropological Thought
Helmut Kuhn: Ernst Cassirer's Philosophy of Culture
David Baumgardt: Cassirer and the Chaos in Modern Ethics
Katharine Gilbert: Cassirer's Placement of Art
Harry Slochower: Ernst Cassirer's Functional Approach to Art and Literature
Konstantin Reichardt: Ernst Cassirer's Contribution to Literary Criticism
John Herman Randall, Jr.: Cassirer's Theory of History as Illustrated in His Treatment of Renaissance Thought
Walter M. Solmitz: Cassirer on Galileo: An Example of Cassirer's Way of Thought
William H. Werkmeister: Cassirer's Advance Beyond Neo-Kantianism
Fritz Kaufmann: Cassirer, Neo-Kantianism, and Phenomenology
Ernst Cassirer: "Spirit" and "Life"in Contemporary Philosophy
Bibliography of the Writings of Ernst Cassirer (To 1946)