The Philosophy of the Enlightenment

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The Philosophy of the Enlightenment "In this celebrated study Ernst Cassirer attempted one of the most difficult kinds of historical reconstruction. The distinction in all his historical writing lay in his treatment of philosophic* systems in relation to the concrete morál and intellectual problems of their time, and in his meticulous tracing of the ways in which technical philosophies are generated, and a larger philosophic self-consciousness nourished, by the process of critical reflection on the problems created by cultural change. . . Cassirer makes no attempt to summarize doctrines or to reconstruct philosophic systems. What he attempts, rather, is to show how the age was unified by a common set of cultural and social problems, and by the temper and direction of its thinking. . . . "Since it first appeared in 1932, Die Philosophie der Aufklarung has been generally recognized as the most penetrating conspectus of the thQught of that period in existence. Messrs. Koelln's and... Tovább

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The Philosophy of the Enlightenment "In this celebrated study Ernst Cassirer attempted one of the most difficult kinds of historical reconstruction. The distinction in all his historical writing lay in his treatment of philosophic* systems in relation to the concrete morál and intellectual problems of their time, and in his meticulous tracing of the ways in which technical philosophies are generated, and a larger philosophic self-consciousness nourished, by the process of critical reflection on the problems created by cultural change. . . Cassirer makes no attempt to summarize doctrines or to reconstruct philosophic systems. What he attempts, rather, is to show how the age was unified by a common set of cultural and social problems, and by the temper and direction of its thinking. . . . "Since it first appeared in 1932, Die Philosophie der Aufklarung has been generally recognized as the most penetrating conspectus of the thQught of that period in existence. Messrs. Koelln's and Pettegrove's careful and lucid translation will reinforce this older impression of the book's imaginative scope and warm intelligence."-Charles Frankéi, The Philosophical Review "Here is a remarkable synthesis of the multiple and variant expressions of eighteenth-century thought; here is intellectual history at its most penetrating and profound."-Leo Gershoy, American Historical Review "This work by the la te Ernst Cassirer who taught at Berlin, Hamburg, Oxford, Göteborg, Yale, and Columbia is a masterpiece."-William A. Mueller, Review and Expositor PRINCETON PAPERBACKS Vissza