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A biography of the German-Jewish philosopher Ernst Cassirer (1874-1945), a leading figure on the Weimar intellectual scene and one of the last and finest representatives of the liberal-idealist tradition. It traces the development of Cassirer's thought in its historical and intellectual setting.
This book will prove insightful to students and scholars interested in German literary, philosophical, and cultural studies."--BOOK JACKET.
Hans Kelsen and the Natural Law Tradition provides the first sustained examination of Hans Kelsen’s critical engagement, itself founded upon a distinctive theory of legal positivism, with the Natural Law Tradition.
This volume explores the conventional opposition between Enlightenment and Postmodernity and questions some of the conclusions drawn from it.
Countless attempts have been made to appropriate the ideas of Friedrich Nietzsche for diverse cultural and political ends, but nowhere have these efforts been more sustained and of greater consequence than in Germany. Aschheim offers a magisterial chronicle of the philosopher's presence in German life and politics.
Heidegger's engagement and disillusionment with National Socialism can both be properly seen to rest on the notion of "the people" that he takes over from traditional German nationalism and elaborates in his philosophical critique of the modern subject.
Wie kaum ein anderer Vertreter des Südwestdeutschen Neukantianismus hat sich Bruno Bauch (1877-1942) um die Ausgestaltung des von W. Windelband und H. Rickert vorzeichneten Programms einer umfassenden Kulturphilosophie bemüht. Zugleich gehört Bauch zu denjenigen Denkern, denen man ein fortwährendes, über die akademischen Fachgrenzen hinausweisendes, politisches Engagement bescheinigt. Der Autor nimmt diesen Befund zum Anlaß, um dem spannungsreichen Wechselverhältnis zwischen Philosophie und Politik in historischer und systematischer Absicht nachzugehen. So befaßt sich die Arbeit nicht nur mit der werttheoretischen Begründung, die Bauch für die verschiedenen Kulturgebiete (z. B. Rec...
Nachdruck des Originals von 1911.