The Philosophy of Ernst Cassirer: A Novel Assessment (New Studies in the History and Historiography of Philosophy, 2)

This volume brings Cassirers work into the arena of contemporary debates both within and outside of philosophy. All articles offer a fresh and contemporary look at one of the most prolific and important philosophers of the 20th century. The papers are authored by a wide array of scholars working in different areas, such as epistemology, philosophy of culture, sociology, psychopathology, philosophy of science and aesthetics. Editorial Karl P. Ameriks (Notre Dame University, West Bend, USA), Margaret Atherton (University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, USA), Frederick Beiser (Syracuse University, Syracuse, USA), Fabien Capeillres (Universit de Caen, France), Faustino Fabbianelli (Universit di Parma, Italia), Daniel Garber (Princeton University, Princeton, USA), Rudolf A. Makkreel (Emory University, Atlanta, USA), Steven Nadler (University of Wisconsin, Madison, USA), Alan Nelson (University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, USA), Christof Rapp (LMU Mnchen, D), Ursula Renz (Universitt Klagenfurt, sterreich), Wilhelm Schmidt-Biggemann (FU Berlin, D), Denis Thouard (HU Berlin, D), Paul Ziche (Universiteit Utrecht, NL), Gnter Zller (LMU Mnchen, D) The series publishes monographs and essay collections devoted to the history of philosophy as well as studies in the theory of writing the history of philosophy. A special emphasis is placed on the contextualization of philosophical historiography into the areas of the history of science, culture, and the wider scope of intellectual history. Table of Contents 5 Editors’ Introduction 7 Part I: Cassirer and the Philosophy of Science 15 Ernst Cassirer and the History of Science 17 Mathematics to Quantum Mechanics On the Conceptual Unity of Cassirer’s Philosophy of Science (1907–1937) 37 A Retrospective View of Determinism and Indeterminism in Modern Physics 71 Holism and the Constitution of “Experience in its Entirety” Cassirer contra Quine on the Lessons of Duhem 109 Arithmetic and Number in the Philosophy of Symbolic Forms 129 Intersubjectivity and Physical Laws in Post-Kantian Theory of Knowledge Natorp and Cassirer 147 Symbolic Form and Mental Illness: Ernst Cassirer’s Contribution to a New Concept of Psychopathology 169 Part II: Epistemology and the History of Philosophy 205 Marburg Neo-Kantianism as Philosophy of Culture 207 Cassirer and Heidegger: The Cultural-Event The Auseinandersetzung of Thinking and Being 239 Cassirer’s Retrieval of Kant’s Copernican Revolution in Semiotics 265 The Concept of ‘Function’ in Cassirer’s Historical, Systematic, and Ethical Writings 295 The Varieties of Perception Non-Conceptual Content in Kant, Cassirer, and McDowell 319 Part III: The Philosophy of Culture Today 345 The First and Second Person Perspective in History: Or, Why History is ‘Culture Fiction’ 347 Cassirer’s Critique of Culture and the Several Tasks of the Critic 367 The A Priori of Culture: Philosophy of Culture Between Rationalism and Relativism. The Example of Lévi-Strauss’ Structural Anthropology 387 After Cassirer: Art and Aesthetic Symbols in Langer and Goodman 407 Humor as a Symbolic Form: Cassirer and the Culture of Comedy 425 Cassirer on the “Objectity” of Evil The Symbolic Constitution of Der Mythus des 20 Jahrhunderts 441 Subject index 475 Index of names 479 Editorial Board: Karl P. Ameriks (Notre Dame University, West Bend, USA), Margaret Atherton (University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, USA), Frederick Beiser (Syracuse University, Syracuse, USA), Fabien Capeillères (Université de Caen, France), Faustino Fabbianelli (Universitá di Parma, Italia), Daniel Garber (Princeton University, Princeton, USA), Rudolf A. Makkreel (Emory University, Atlanta, USA), Steven Nadler (University of Wisconsin, Madison, USA), Alan Nelson (University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, USA), Christof Rapp (LMU München, D), Ursula Renz (Universität Klagenfurt, Österreich), Wilhelm Schmidt-Biggemann (FU Berlin, D), Denis Thouard (HU Berlin, D), Paul Ziche (Universiteit Utrecht, NL), Günter Zöller (LMU München, D) The series publishes monographs and essay collections devoted to the history of philosophy as well as studies in the theory of writing the history of philosophy. A special emphasis is placed on the contextualization of philosophical historiography into the areas of the history of science, culture, and the wider scope of intellectual history.

This volume brings Cassirer’s work into the arena of contemporary debates both within and outside of philosophy. All articles offer a fresh and contemporary look at one of the most prolific and important philosophers of the 20th century. The papers are authored by a wide array of scholars working in different areas, such as epistemology, philosophy of culture, sociology, psychopathology, philosophy of science and aesthetics.

Edited By J. Tyler Friedman And Sebastian Luft. Proceedings Of Conference Held 18-21 June, 2014 In Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Includes Bibliographical References And Index.