Simon Truwant

Cassirer and Heidegger in Davos

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Produktbeschreibung

The 1929 debate between Ernst Cassirer and Martin Heidegger in Davos is considered one of the most important intellectual debates of the twentieth century and a founding moment of continental philosophy. This is the first comprehensive philosophical analysis of the content and arguments of this fascinating and often misunderstood debate.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 276
• Erscheinungstermin: 25. April 2022
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 19mm
• Gewicht: 556g
• ISBN-13: 9781316519882
• ISBN-10: 1316519880
• Artikelnr.: 63266253

Autorenporträt

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.

Inhaltsangabe

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.