Ernst Cassirer and the critical science of Germany : 1899-1919 /
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, 189...
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New York City :
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2013.
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Table of Contents:
- 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.
