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Ernst Cassirer : Scientific Knowledge and the Concept of Man / Seymour W. Itzkoff.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Itzkoff, Seymour W., author.
- Series:
- Soundings (Notre Dame, Ind.)
- Soundings
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Knowledge, Theory of.
- Philosophical anthropology.
- Cassirer, Ernst, 1874-1945.
- Cassirer, Ernst.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (325 pages)
- Edition:
- Second edition.
- Place of Publication:
- Notre Dame, Indiana : University of Notre Dame Press, 1997.
- Summary:
- For this second edition, Seymour has written a new introduction and has added a new retrospective essay. Ernst Cassirer: Scientific Knowledge and the Concept of Man by Seymour W. Itzkoff is currently one of the few books available in the English language that discusses the philosophy of twentieth-century German philosopher Ernst Cassirer. Itzkoff's study brings Cassirer's perspective directly into the contemporary debate over the evolution of human thought and its relationship to animal life. Further, Itzkoff places Cassirer directly in the context of recent philosophical thought, arguing for the importance of his Kantian perspective, a significance that is amply vindicated by the current interest in Cassirer's ideas.
- Contents:
- Cover
- Half title
- Frontispiece
- Title page
- Copyright
- Dedication
- Contents
- Preface to the Second Edition
- Introduction to the Second Edition
- Preface to the First Edition
- 1. Cassirer's Kantianism
- 2. The Critical Kant
- 3. Newtonianism and the Status of Scientific Knowledge
- 4. Relativity and Quantum Theory
- 5. From Science to Culture: Language
- 6. Aphasia and Common-Sense Thought
- 7. Man as Symbolic Animal: The TheoreticaI lssue
- 8. Man as Symbolic Animal: An Evolutionary Interpretation
- 9. The Direction of Knowledge: A Critico-Idealiest Exploration
- Notes
- Index.
- Notes:
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- Description based on print version record.
- Includes index.
- Other Format:
- Print version: Itzkoff, Seymour W. Ernst Cassirer
- ISBN:
- 9780268078539
- OCLC:
- 1309888596
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