Aufsätze und kleine Schriften 1941–1945
Aufsätze und kleine Schriften 1941–1945

Author: Ernst Cassirer

Publisher: Felix Meiner Verlag

Published: 2023-06-27

Total Pages: 722

ISBN-13: 378734473X

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Aufsätze und Abhandlungen Logos, Dike, Kosmos in der Entwicklung der griechischen Philosophie · Thorild und Herder · Galileo: a New Science and a New Spirit · Giovanni Pico della Mirandola. A Study in the History of Renaissance Ideas · The Influence of Language upon the Development of Scientific Thought · Newton and Leibniz · Hermann Cohen, 1842-1918 · Some Remarks on the Question of the Originality of the Renaissance · The Place of Vesalius in the Culture of the Renaissance · Judaism and the Modern Political Myths · The Concept of Group and the Theory of Perception · Galileo's Platonism · The Myth of the State · Thomas Manns Goethe-Bild. Eine Studie über "Lotte in Weimar" · Structuralism in Modern Linguistics · Albert Schweitzer as Critic of Nineteenth-Century Ethics Zur logik der Kulturwissenschaften. Fünf Studien Der Gegenstand der Kulturwissenschaft · Dingwahrnehmung und Ausdruckswahrnehmung · Naturbegriffe und Kulturbegriffe · Formproblem und Kausalproblem · Die "Tragödie der Kultur" Rousseau, Kant, Goethe. Two essays Kant and Rousseau · Goethe and the Kantian Philosophy Rezensionen und kleine Schriften Nachträge

The Myth of the State
The Myth of the State

Author: Ernst Cassirer

Publisher: Felix Meiner Verlag

Published: 2023-06-27

Total Pages: 336

ISBN-13: 3787344748

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Das Thema des in englischer Sprache verfassten The Myth of the State – dem letzten Werk, das Cassirer vor seinem Tod im Manuskript zum Abschluss bringen konnte – ist die Wiederkehr des politischen Totalitarismus, dem er selbst nur durch Emigration entkam. Der Text belegt, dass die in der Philosophie der symbolischen Formen entwickelte »Kritik der Kultur« auch den Rahmen für eine Theorie des Politischen absteckt und dazu nötigt, auf anthropologischer Ebene die Einheit von »animal symbolicum« und »zoon politikon« zu denken. Cassirer beginnt mit einer Analyse der destruktiven Macht des mythischen Denkens. Er untersucht seine Struktur, seine Beziehung zur Sprache, seinen affektiven Charakter und seine soziale Funktion. Im Anschluss beschreibt Cassirer in einem ideengeschichtlichen Aufriß die Hauptlinien der politischen Theorien von Platon bis zum frühen 19. Jahrhundert, um dann im letzten Teil die Wiedergeburt des Mythos im 20. Jahrhundert zu behandeln. Cassirer schließt, dass der politische Mythos nicht endgültig überwunden, sondern nur »gezähmt« werden kann. Dazu kann die Philosophie beitragen, jedoch nicht, indem sie ihn argumentativ zu widerlegen versucht, sondern indem sie ihn verstehen und so bekämpfen hilft. Eine deutsche Übersetzung – Vom Mythus des Staates – ist in der Philosophischen Bibliothek (Band 541) lieferbar.

Cassirer and Heidegger in Davos
Cassirer and Heidegger in Davos

Author: Simon Truwant

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2022-05-19

Total Pages: 275

ISBN-13: 1316519880

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The first comprehensive philosophical analysis of the 'Davos debate' between Ernst Cassirer and Martin Heidegger.

Moral Victories
Moral Victories

Author: Andrew R. Hom

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Published: 2017-11-17

Total Pages: 303

ISBN-13: 0192521985

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What does it mean to win a moral victory? Ideals of just and decisive triumphs often colour the call to war, yet victory is an increasingly dubious proposition in modern conflict, where negotiated settlements and festering violence have replaced formal surrenders. In the Just War and strategic studies traditions, assumptions about victory also underpin decisions to go to war but become more problematic in discussions about its conduct and conclusion. So although winning is typically considered the very object of war, we lack a clear understanding of victory itself. Likewise, we lack reliable resources for discerning a just from an unjust victory, for balancing the duty to fight ethically with the obligation to win, and for assessing the significance of changing ways of war for moral judgment. Though not amenable to easy answers, these important questions are both perennial and especially urgent. This book brings together a group of leading scholars from various disciplines to tackle them. It covers both traditions of victory - charting the historically variable notion of victory and the dialogues and fissures this opens in the just war and strategic canons - along with contemporary challenges of victory- analysing how new security contexts put pressure on these fissures and working toward clearer ideas about victory today. The result is a wide-ranging and timely collection of essays that bridges the gap between ethical, strategic, and historical approaches to war and develops new ways of thinking about it as a practical and moral proposition.

Cassirer in Contexts
Cassirer in Contexts

Author: Andrzej Karalus

Publisher: Felix Meiner Verlag

Published: 2023-12-11

Total Pages: 213

ISBN-13: 3787343741

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Der Band »Cassirer in Contexts« ist Bestandteil des wiederauflebenden Interesses an den philosophischen Errungenschaften Ernst Cassirers. Die hier versammelten Aufsätze wurden von Forscherinnen und Forschern aus verschiedenen akademischen Disziplinen verfasst, was sich in der Reichhaltigkeit der behandelten Themen widerspiegelt. Der Sammelband enthält Zusammenfassungen und kritische Diskussionen mehrerer für Cassirers Philosophie wichtiger Konzepte – etwa die Bedeutung des Symbolischen oder des Mythos – sowie Erörterungen hinsichtlich des Einflusses von Cassirers Denken auf die Entwicklung bestimmter philosophischer Teildisziplinen, besonders der Sprachphilosophie und Philosophie der Mathematik. Des Weiteren dient der Band als Beleg für die Aktualität von Cassirers Denken, als Beweis dafür, dass dieses nach wie vor eine Quelle theoretischer und philosophischer Inspiration ist und sein Erklärungspotenzial in einer Vielzahl von Kontexten genutzt werden kann

Under the Spell of Freedom
Under the Spell of Freedom

Author: Hans Joas

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Published: 2024

Total Pages: 505

ISBN-13: 0197642152

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In Under the Spell of Freedom, Hans Joas deconstructs the grand Hegelian narrative of human history as the self-realization of the idea of freedom, setting as a counterpart the sketches of a theory of the emergence of moral universalism. He takes the classical views of Hegel and his emphasis on the role of Protestant Christianity and the extremely negative views about Christianity in the work of the philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche to elaborate on this new understanding of religion and freedom, which encompasses a range of intellectual traditions and avoids Eurocentrism. Joas answers the empirical question of when, where, why, and how such a moral universalism emerged and developed.

Kleine Schriften by Josef van Ess (3 vols)
Kleine Schriften by Josef van Ess (3 vols)

Author: Josef van Ess

Publisher: BRILL

Published: 2018-03-12

Total Pages: 2742

ISBN-13: 9004336486

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Kleine Schriften, written by the eminent German scholar of Islamic Studies Josef van Ess, is a unique collection of Van Ess' widely scattered short writings, journal articles, encyclopaedia entries, (autobiographical) essays, reviews and lectures, in (mainly) German, English and French, some of which are published here for the first time. It includes a full bibliography of the author’s work, in addition to two indexes of classical authors and works, which aim to make accessible the remarkable riches that these Kleine Schriften have to offer. The three-volume collection, carefully selected by the author himself, offers over 150 texts organized primarily along Van Ess’ own biography and the history of the discipline. It is divided into twelve parts, beginning with Tübingen where his career began in 1968, and ending with Retrospects and Postscripts for the future, with the thematic complexes Islam and its first options and Muʿtazila as centre pieces. All parts are introduced by brief accounts of the historical context in which each of the assembled texts was written and which course subsequent scholarship may have taken.

A Companion to the Works of Hermann Broch
A Companion to the Works of Hermann Broch

Author: Graham Bartram

Publisher: Studies in German Literature L

Published: 2019

Total Pages: 292

ISBN-13: 1571135413

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Hermann Broch (1886-1951) is best known for his two major modernist works, The Sleepwalkers (3 vols., 1930-1932) and The Death of Virgil (1945), which frame a lifetime of ethical, cultural, political, and social thought. A textile manufacturer by trade, Broch entered the literary scene late in life with an experimental view of the novel that strove towards totality and vividly depicted Europe's cultural disintegration. As fascism took over and Broch, a Viennese Jew, was forced into exile, his view of literature as transformative was challenged, but his commitment to presenting an ethical view of the crises of his time was unwavering. An important mentor and interlocutor for contemporaries such as Arendt and Canetti as well as a continued inspiration for contemporary authors, Broch wrote to better understand and shape the political and cultural conditions for a postfascist world. This volume covers the major literary works and constitutes the first comprehensive introduction in English to Broch's political, cultural, aesthetic, and philosophical writings. Contributors: Graham Bartram, Brechtje Beuker, Gisela Brude-Firnau, Gwyneth Cliver, Jennifer Jenkins, Kathleen L. Komar, Paul Michael Lützeler, Gunther Martens, Sarah McGaughey, Judith Ryan, Judith Sidler, Galin Tihanov, Sebastian Wogenstein. Graham Bartram retired as Senior Lecturer in German Studies at the University of Lancaster, UK. Sarah McGaughey is Associate Professor of German at Dickinson College, USA. Galin Tihanov is the George Steiner Professor of Comparative Literature at Queen Mary University of London, UK.

God's World. No String Puppets
God's World. No String Puppets

Author: Jane Lee-Barker

Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers

Published: 2022-11-17

Total Pages: 278

ISBN-13: 1532663218

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We live in a world facing many crises, pandemics, climate and environmental challenges, human rights abuses, and threats of totalitarian regimes. Romano Guardini (1885–1968), a major influencer of Pope Benedict XVI and Pope Francis, worked through one of the most difficult periods of German history—the first half of the twentieth century. What does he have to say to these challenges, and how is his notion of providence relevant today? Jane Lee-Barker shows how Guardini’s insight and deep thought on God’s providence weave their way through his work, enabling the reader to fully appreciate “God’s world.” In relationship with God, the human person is invited to participate in responsible care for the world while responding to their own vocational call from the God who sustains him or her.

Discourse on a New Method
Discourse on a New Method

Author: Mary Domski

Publisher: Open Court Publishing

Published: 2010

Total Pages: 864

ISBN-13: 081269662X

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Addressing a wide range of topics, from Newton to Post-Kuhnian philosophy of science, these essays critically examine themes that have been central to the influential work of philosopher Michael Friedman. Special focus is given to Friedman's revealing study of both history of science and philosophy in his work on Kant, Newton, Einstein, and other major figures. This interaction of history and philosophy is the subject of the editors' "manifesto" and serves to both explain and promote the essential ties between two disciplines usually regarded as unrelated.