Category Archives: Ernst Cassirer

Jeffrey Andrew Barash, The Politics of Historical Interpretation:  Reflections on Ideology and the Perplexities of Political Myth – De Gruyter Brill, August 2025

Posted on September 11, 2025 by stuartelden

Jeffrey Andrew Barash, The Politics of Historical Interpretation:  Reflections on Ideology and the Perplexities of Political Myth – De Gruyter Brill, August 2025 This book focuses on political presuppositions animating modern historical reflection in Germany that underwent sharp radicalization in … Continue reading →

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Roman Jakobson, Franz Boas, and the Paleo-Siberian and Aleutian material at the New York Public Library

Posted on June 1, 2025 by stuartelden

The support for refugee scholars to come to the United States of America in the 1930s and 1940s is well known. Varian Fry famously helped several hundred European artists and intellectuals to flee Vichy France between 1940 and 1941. The … Continue reading →

Posted in Alexandre Koyré, Claude Lévi-Strauss, Ernst Cassirer, Ernst Kantorowicz, Roman Jakobson, Sunday Histories, Uncategorized | 7 Comments

Books received – Eilenberger, Durkheim, Lorenzini, Pietz, Culcasi, Guyau

Posted on September 21, 2023 by stuartelden

Wolfram Eilenberger, Time of the Magicians: Wittgenstein, Benjamin, Cassirer, Heidegger and the Great Decade of Philosophy; a somewhat battered copy of Émile Durkheim, Lettres à Marcel Mauss; and four books I’ve mentioned here before – Daniele Lorenzini, The Force of … Continue reading →

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Ernst Cassirer, The Philosophy of Symbolic Forms, new translation of all three volumes – Routledge, September 2020

Posted on March 18, 2021 by stuartelden

Ernst Cassirer, The Philosophy of Symbolic Forms, new translation of all three volumes – Routledge, September 2020 I missed this when it was published last year, but this looks a major undertaking. There is a review in the New York … Continue reading →

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Heidegger, Cassirer (& Fink) at Davos

Posted on August 14, 2011 by stuartelden

Finally got round to reading Peter E. Gordon’s Continental Divide: Heidegger, Cassirer, Davos. It’s an interesting book, on a key moment in European intellectual history. One thing thought was interesting was that Eugen Fink attended the debate – I knew … Continue reading →

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Sloterdijk; Heidegger, Cassirer, Davos reviewed

Posted on February 23, 2011 by stuartelden

Two interesting reviews on NDPR –  on Peter Sloterdijk’s Rage and Time and on Peter E. Gordon’s Continental Divide: Heidegger, Cassirer, Davos. The Sloterdijk one is pretty critical. I think it might miss what is worthwhile in Sloterdijk, but he is … Continue reading →

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Heidegger and Cassirer

Posted on August 12, 2010 by stuartelden

An interesting looking book on Heidegger and Cassirer just out, beginning with their 1929 encounter in Davos, but it looks like it goes a way beyond this. Details here. Great cover photo too.

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