Ernst Cassirer and the Critical Science of Germany, 1899-1919

Gregory B. Moynahan

Recovering a lost world of the politics of science in Imperial Germany, Gregory B. Moynahan approaches the life and work of the philosopher and historian Ernst Cassirer (18751945) from a revisionist perspective, using this framework to redefine the origins of twentieth-century critical historicism and critical theory. The only text in English to focus on the first half of the polymath Cassirers career and his role in the Marburg School, this volume illuminates one of the most important and in English, least-studied reform movements in Imperial Germany.

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Ernst Cassirer and the Critical Science of Germany, 1899-1919

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Frontmatter
pp i-iv

Dedication
pp v-vi

Contents
pp vii-viii

Acknowledgments
pp ix-xii

List of Abbreviations
pp xiii-xvi

Introduction “Reading a Mute History”: Ernst Cassirer, the Marburg School and the Crises of Modern Germany
pp xvii-lii

Part I - The Marburg School and the Politics of Science in Germany
pp 1-2

Chapter One - The Twentieth-Century Conflict of the Faculties: The Marburg School and the Reform of the Sciences
pp 3-26

Chapter Two - Cassirer and the Marburg School in the Administrative and Political Context of the Kaiserreich
pp 27-44

Chapter Three - “The Supreme Principles of Knowledge”: Cassirer's Transformation of the Tenets of Cohen's Infinitesimal Method (1882) and System of Philosophy (1902–1912)
pp 45-82

Part II - Critical Science and Modernity
pp 83-84

Chapter Four - Leibniz and the Foundation of Critical Science: Leibniz's System in its Scientific Foundations (1902)
pp 85-120

Chapter Five - Science and History in Cassirer's Substance and Function (1910)
pp 121-156

Part III - Liberal Democracy and Law
pp 157-158

Chapter Six - Liberalism and the Conflict of Forms: The Knowledge Problem (1906–1940) and Freedom and Form (1916)
pp 159-192

Chapter Seven - Law as Science and the “Coming-into-Being” of Natural Right in Cohen, Cassirer and Kelsen
pp 193-208

Conclusion Critical Science, the Future of Humanity and the Riddle of An Essay on Man (1944)
pp 209-220

Index
pp 221-225

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