For almost two centuries the philosophy of Rousseau has perplexed its interpreters. The majority of his critics claimed to have found the "essence of Rousseau" in one or the other of his major works or in some of his scintillating epigrams, and therefore attacked him either for extreme views of individualism or collectivism, or for his alleged inconsistencies. His disciples contradicted each other as vigorously as his opponents; the Jacobins established the Reign of Terror in his name, the German romantics hailed him as a liberator, and Schiller pictured him as a martyr to wisdom. Ernst Cassirer's celebrated essay, "Das Problem Jean-Jacques Rousseau," accepts Rousseau's own contention of the integrity of his thought, and attempts to reveal its meaning by providing an understanding of his work as a whole. Cassirer achieves this by an empathic recreation of the "philosophical world" of Rousseau, a re-examination of his work in the light of his complex personality and of the age in which he lived. He illuminates the relation of Rousseau's fundamental conceptions to one another and to the rest of his thought - the relation of actual to potential reason, of perfectibility to the demand for a new society, of education to rationality, and of reason to freedom. "If the portrayal of Rousseau the emotional, self-contradictory totalitarian has generally given way to a more accurate estimate," states Peter Gay, "Cassirer's essay may claim a large share of the credit." (from the back cover)

Question of Jean-Jacques Rousseau (A Midland Book)

Politics & Social Sciences

Ernst, Cassirer

Philosophy

Midland Book/Indiana University Press

Translated by Clarence Smith Howe . 8vo pp. XX + 218 Brossura (wrappers) Molto Buono (Very Good)

The Logic of the Humanities.

Yale University Press

The Symbolic Forms has long been considered the greatest of Cassirer’s works. Into it he poured all the resources of his vast learning about language and myth, religion, art, and science―the various creative symbolizing activities and constructions through which man has expressed himself and given intelligible objective form to this experience. “These three volumes alone (apart from Cassirer’s other papers and books) make an outstanding contribution to epistemology and to the human power of abstraction. It is rather as if ‘The Golden Bough’ had been written in philosophical rather than in historical terms.”―F.I.G. Rawlins, Nature

The Philosophy of Symbolic Forms: Vol. 3: The Phenomenology of Knowledge

Determinism and Indeterminism in Modern Physics: Historical and Systematic Studies of the Problem of Causality

Symbol, myth, and culture: Essays and lectures of Ernst Cassirer, 1935-1945

The Logic of the Cultural Sciences: Five Studies (Cassirer Lectures Series)

This new translation of The Logic of the Cultural Sciences (formerly entitled The Logic of the Humanities) makes Ernst Cassirer's classic study available again to English readers. Contributing a wealth of ideas to continuing debates about culture, Cassirer here considers the disciplines commonly referred to as the humanities, defining and justifying the basic philosophical perspective of his philosophy of symbolic forms.

Substanzbegriff und Funktionsbegriff: Untersuchungen Über die Grundfragen der Erkenntniskritik (Classic Reprint)

Forgotten Books

internally mostly very good, solid binding, a few rear pages have some underlining, some minor/natural indications of storage/age externally

Substance and Function & Einstein's Theory of Relativity

Dover `

This provocative volume, one of the most important interpretive works on the philosophical thought of the Renaissance, has long been regarded as a classic in its field. Ernst Cassirer here examines the changes brewing in the early stages of the Renaissance, tracing the interdependence of philosophy, language, art, and science; the newfound recognition of individual consciousness; and the great thinkers of the period--from da Vinci and Galileo to Pico della Mirandola and Giordano Bruno. The Individual and the Cosmos in Renaissance Philosophy discusses the importance of fifteenth-century philosopher Nicholas Cusanus, the concepts of freedom and necessity, and the subject-object problem in Renaissance thought.

Individual and the Cosmos in Renaissance Philosophy

Harper&Row

The Philosophy of Symbolic Forms, Volume 1: Language

Routledge

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