Updated Edition. By: Ernst Cassirer. Publisher: Princeton University Press. Print ISBN: 9780691143347, 069114334X. Format: PDF. Available from. Phenomenologies of Culture and Ethics: Ernst Cassirer, Alfred Schutz and the Tasks of a Philosophy of Culture. And if yes, why? These are the questions addressed by this paper. Answers are sought in a close examination of the work of Ernst Cassirer which involved both a phenomenology of cultural 4 German Enlightenment Philosophers: 5 American Enligtenment Philosophers: The Philosophy of the Enlightenment. The 18th century is the main philosophical century, the philosophy of the Enlightenment. Indeed, all over Europe, philosophers have laid down old principles and reinventing In portraying Enlightenment philosophy as a process, not a doctrine, Cassirer not only undermines all those caricatures of the Enlightenment that still flourish within and without the academy; he also shows the force it can have for renewing philosophy itself."?Susan Neiman, author of Moral Clarity. by Ernst Cassirer. Other authors: See the other authors section. It is above all because of him [Lessing] the the century of the Enlightenment, to a very great extent dominated by its gift of criticism, did not fall prey to the merely negative critical function--that it was able to reconvert criticism to Ernst Cassirer (1874-1945) was a German-Jewish philosopher who taught at several universities in Germany and the United States. If nothing else, in our world of concise histories and quick overviews, Philosophy of the Enlightenment is still an excellent and detailed handbook for anyone interested in Description: 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 The Age of Enlightenment (also known as the Age of Reason or simply the Enlightenment) was an intellectual and philosophical movement that dominated the world of ideas in Europe during the 17th Report this link. Short Description. Download ernst-cassirer-kants-life-and-thought.pdf Turning to Kant's transcendental justification of his factual claims, especially his transcendental deduction of the Categories, one is immediately struck by exegetic divergences which are radical and irreconcilable. Cassirer_Ernst_Language_and_Myth_1953.Pdf ?(file size: 4.38 MB, MIME type: application/pdf). Cassirer E., Language and Myth, trans. Susanne K. Langer, Harper and Brother, 1946; New York: Dover Publications, 1953. Ernst Cassirer's "The Philosophy of the Enlightenment" is an excellent historical overview of this period of intellectual history. He highlights the major themes that unite this diverse group of thinkers. I previously read and enjoyed Peter Gay's two-volume history of the Enlightenment