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1 online resource |
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Introduction "reading a mute history": Ernst Cassirer, the Marburg School and the crises of modern Germany -- The Marburg School and the politics of science in Germany -- The twentieth-century conflict of the faculties: the Marburg School and the reform of the sciences -- Cassirer and the Marburg School in the administrative and political context of the Kaiserreich -- "The supreme principles of knowledge": Cassirer's transformation of the tenets of Cohen's infinitesimal method (1882) and system of philosophy (1902-1912) -- Critical science and modernity -- Leibniz and the foundation of critical science: Leibniz's system in its scientific foundations -- Science and history in Cassirer"s substance and function -- Liberal democracy and law -- Liberalism and the conflict of forms: the knowledge problem (1906-1940) and freedom and form -- 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 |
| Summary |
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, |
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Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
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Cassirer, Ernst, 1874-1945
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| SUBJECT |
Cassirer, Ernst, 1874-1945 fast |
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Marburg school of philosophy.
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Science -- Philosophy.
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Science -- Germany -- History -- 20th century
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PHILOSOPHY -- History & Surveys -- Modern.
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SCIENCE -- History.
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Marburg school of philosophy
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Science
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Science -- Philosophy
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Germany
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History
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Electronic book
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| ISBN |
085728343X |
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9780857283436 |
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