v. 1. Language.--v. 2. Mythical thought.--v. 3. The phenomenology of knowledge.--v. 4. The metaphysics of symbolic forms.

The concept of philosophy as a philosophical problem.--Critical idealism as a philosophy of culture.--Descartes, Leibniz, and Vico.--Hegel's theory of the State.--The philosophy of history.--Language and art I.--Language and art II.--The educational value of art.--Philosophy and politics.--Judaism and the modern political myths.--The technique of our modern political myths.--Reflections on the concept of group and the theory of perception.

The first edition of this book profoundly challenged and divided students of philosophy, sociology, and the history of science when it was published in 1976. In this second edition, Bloor responds in a substantial new Afterword to the heated debates engendered by his book.

A revised and enlarged version of Biologen unter Hitler, translated by Thomas Dunlap.

Die im Wintersemester 1929/30 an der Freiburger Universität vierstündig gehaltene Vorlesung ist in zweierlei Hinsicht erregend. Zum einen enthält sie eine breit durchgeführte Analyse der in der Freiburger Antrittsvorlesung 'Was ist Metaphysik?' nur gestreiften Langeweile, zum anderen bietet sie eine ebenso ausführliche Wesensbestimmung des Organismus und des Lebens - eine Thematik, die Heidegger in 'Sein und Zeit', § 12, nur benennt. 'Diese Vorlesung ist wohl die bedeutendste, die Heidegger gehalten hat, und schon fast ein zweites Hauptwerk.' Rüdiger Safranski.

"Perceptions of Jewish History scintillates with original ideas and insights. It will appeal to a broad audience." --Michael A. Signer, University of Notre Dame "Students of the Jewish past will welcome this volume; it will also attract readers with the widest possible range of interests." --Robert Chazan, New York University.

A summation of the work of one of the most influential and provocative interpreters of science, it aims at saving what is good and valuable in modernity and ...

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 manís ability to resolve human problems by the courageous use of his mind.

Dieser Band bietet sechs wichtige, im Original nur schwer zugängliche Aufsätze aus den Jahren 1913-39, in denen Cassirer die Grundzüge des in seinen Hauptwerken entwickelten Erkenntnisbegriffs darlegt und zeitgenössische Mißverständnisse zurückweist. Die Arbeiten dokumentieren die Etappen seines Denkweges von der Erkenntniskritik zur Begründung der Kulturphilosophie und erweisen insbesondere die Eigenständigkeit der Philosophie Cassirers gegenüber der Schule der Neukantianer, der er häufig zugerechnet wird. Inhalt: Erkenntnistheorie nebst den Grenzfragen der Logik; 1913 - Erkenntnistheorie nebst den Grenzfragen der Logik und Denkpsychologie; 1927 (...) - Zur Theorie des Begriffs; 1928 - Inhalt und Umfang des Begriffs; 1936 - Was ist >Subjektivismus. (shrink)

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"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 his clarity in English. There is no better place for an intelligent reader to find out, with a minimum of technical language, what was really happening during the great intellectual movement between the age of Newton and our own."—_New York Times._.