Cassirer and Heidegger in Davos
Cambridge University Press (Verlag)
978-1-316-51988-2 (ISBN)
The 1929 encounter between Ernst Cassirer and Martin Heidegger in Davos, Switzerland is considered one of the most important intellectual debates of the twentieth century and a founding moment of continental philosophy. At the same time, many commentators have questioned the philosophical profundity and coherence of the actual debate. In this book, the first comprehensive philosophical analysis of the Davos debate, Simon Truwant challenges these critiques. He argues that Cassirer and Heidegger's disagreement about the meaning of Kant's philosophy is motivated by their different views about the human condition, which in turn are motivated by their opposing conceptions of what the task of philosophy ultimately should be. Truwant shows that Cassirer and Heidegger share a grand philosophical concern: to comprehend and aid the human being's capacity to orient itself in and towards the world.
Simon Truwant is FWO Postdoctoral Fellow at KU Leuven. He is the editor of Interpreting Cassirer: Critical Essays (Cambridge University Press, 2021) and has published articles in journals including Epoché, Idealistic Studies, and International Journal of Philosophical Studies.
Introduction: what is at stake in the Davos debate?; 1. Reconstructing the Davos debate; Part I. The Lasting Meaning of Kant's Thoughts: 2. Cassirer's transformation of the critique of reason into a critique of culture; 3. Heidegger's reading of transcendental philosophy as phenomenological ontology; 4. Receptivity or spontaneity: two readings of the Critique of Pure Reason; Part II. 'What Is the Human Being?': 5. Cassirer's functional account of the 'animal symbolicum'; 6. Heidegger's existential analytic of 'Dasein'; 7. Infinity and finitude: the quest for existential orientation; Part III. The Task of Philosophy: 8. Cassirer's functional conception of philosophy; 9. Heidegger's hermeneutic conception of philosophy; 10. Enlightenment or therapy: the cosmopolitan task of philosophy; Conclusion: the terminus a quo and terminus ad quem of the Davos debate.
| Erscheinungsdatum | 11.05.2022 |
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| Zusatzinfo | Worked examples or Exercises |
| Verlagsort | Cambridge |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 158 x 235 mm |
| Gewicht | 540 g |
| Themenwelt | Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Erkenntnistheorie / Wissenschaftstheorie |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Philosophie der Neuzeit | |
| Sozialwissenschaften | |
| ISBN-10 | 1-316-51988-0 / 1316519880 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-316-51988-2 / 9781316519882 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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