Research Catalog

Title

Ernst Cassirer : scientific knowledge and the concept of man / Seymour W. Itzkoff.

Author

Itzkoff, Seymour W.

Publication

Notre Dame, Ind. : University of Notre Dame Press, 1997.

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Description

xxxvii, 286 pages : illustrations; 21 cm

Summary

• Ernst Cassirer: Scientific Knowledge and the Concept of Man by Seymour W. Itzkoff is one of the few books currently 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. For this second edition, Itzkoff has written a new introduction and has added a new retrospective essay.

Subjects

• Cassirer, Ernst, 1874-1945
• Knowledge, Theory of
• Philosophical anthropology

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 253-280) and index.

Contents

1. Cassirer's Kantianism: The Historic Issue from Galileo to Hume -- 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 Theoretical Issue -- 8. Man as Symbolic Animal: An Evolutionary Interpretation -- 9. The Direction of Knowledge: A Critico-Idealist Exploration.

ISBN

0268009376 (pbk. : alk. paper)

LCCN

97022281

OCLC

ocm37109149

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries