Ernst Cassirer and the Critical Science of Germany, 1899-1919
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Author(s)Moynahan, Gregory B.
PublisherAnthem Press
ISBN / ASIN0857283219
ISBN-139780857283214
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Description
Recovering a lost world of the politics of science in Imperial Germany, Gregory B. Moynahan revisits the work of the philosopher and historian Ernst Cassirer (1875-1945) and explores his relations with the Marburg School of Hermann Cohen. The epochal transformations of the natural sciences at the turn of the century revealed, in Cassirer's view, an emergent mode of understanding based purely on relational structure which could be further developed through the social sciences and humanities, or human sciences. Cassirer's project placed the development and critique of the sciences within an historical and ethical ambit, and from it sought to establish a new definition of experience, society and modernity. The result was a distinctly central European argument for democracy, liberalism and civil rights that was grounded on the historical critique of the construction of objects -- and subjects -- through the sciences. The only text in English to focus on the first half of the polymath Cassirer's career, this work illuminates one of the most important, and in English least-studied, reform movements in Imperial Germany.
