Ernst Cassirer es uno de los principales pensadores alemanes del siglo XX. En esta obra, escrita durante su etapa de exilio en Suecia (1935-1941), revisa su pensamiento partiendo de un diálogo típicamente platónico con el tambié...
En su conferencia pronunciada en 1928 para conmemorar la República de Weimar, Cassirer muestra que los valores defendidos por esa constitución republicana hunden sus raíces en la Ilustración europea. Los derechos del hombre...
Los tres ensayos de Cassirer que integran el presente tomo, inéditos hasta ahora en castellano, nos ofrecen una visión panorámica de la Ilustración europea centrada en el examen de los pensadores cuya obra es referencia inexcus...
An Essay on Man is an original synthesis of contemporary knowledge, a unique interpretation of the intellectual crisis of our time, and a brilliant vindication of man's ability to resolve human problems by the courageous use of his mind. In a new introduc...
Peculiar biografía del filósofo de Königsberg que no sólo transita por las distintas etapas de su vida común, sino que profundiza en los aspectos cruciales que dieron por resultado todas las ideas plasmadas en su vasta...
This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an impe...
The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important book...
The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important book...
"Individuum und Kosmos in der Philosophie der Renaissance" (1927) schreibt ein Stück philosophischer Problemgeschichte und geht der Frage nach, "ob und inwiefern die Gedankenbewegung des 15. und 16. Jahrhunderts bei aller Mannigfaltigkeit...
At his death in 1945, the influential German philosopher Ernst Cassirer left manuscripts for the fourth and final volume of his magnum opus, The Philosophy of Symbolic Forms . John Michael Krois and Donald Phillip Verene have edited these writings and...
The Symbolic Forms has long been considered the greatest of Cassirer's works. Into it he poured all the resources of his vast learning about language and myth, religion, art, and science--the various creative symbolizing activities and constructions...
"Cassirer employs his remarkable gift of lucidity to explain the major ideas and intellectual issues that emerged in the course of nineteenth century scientific and historical thinking. The translators have done an excellent job in reproducing...
Das Bemühen um eine methodische Grundlegung der Geisteswissenschaften führte Cassirer zu dem Schluß, dass die allgemeine Erkenntnistheorie in ihrer tradierten Form nicht ausreiche, um die verschiedenen Grundformen des Weltverstehens bestim...