...Hans Blumenberg; Joe Paul Kroll On the occasion of receiving a prize first awarded to Ernst Cassirer (1874–1945), Hans Blumenberg assesses Cassirer’s legacy and influence. Blumenberg underlines Cassirer’s contribution to epistemology in the neo-Kantian tradition as well as his pioneering work...

.... This essay confronts Horkheimer and Adorno's argument with the less-celebrated work of the German philosopher Ernst Cassirer, whose functionalistic concept of myth as a symbolic form enables him to give detailed philosophical analyses of myth as a long-established form of life and as an artificial weapon...

.... It is April 23, 1929, in Davos, Switzerland. Earlier that day, Ernst Cassirer and Martin Heidegger had finished their lectures and debates at the Davoser Hochschulgespräche, and now students were debating and mock- ingly reenacting what Peter Gordon dubs a momentous “continental divide” in intellectual...

... and anticommunist cause. 29 Indeed, not everybody has agreed with Gordon’s interpretation of the Davos disputation. William H. F. Altman contends that Heidegger’s confrontational attitude toward Cassirer and the former’s emphasis on “hardness of fate” betrayed his proximity to Jünger. 30 Significantly for us...

.... Marei filed a notice of appeal on September 9, 2016. Lawrence M. Kaye  117 Cassirer v. Thyssen-Bornemisza Collection Foundation exemplifies the trend.47 In 2005 the heirs of the original owner of a Camille Pissarro painting confiscated by a Nazi agent...

..., in the one case, and philosophizing, in the other. That is why—says Blumenberg, hermeneuticist that he is—neither philosophical systematics nor philosophical concepts and metaphors must be separated from their history. For him, who here followed in the footsteps of Ernst Cassirer, 13 this includes...

..., Tactile Eye . 5. Balázs, Early Film Theory , 96 . 6. Balázs, Early Film Theory , 96 . I have used the generic female gender here, though this is not the convention in the 2010 translation. 7. Cassirer, “Kant und das Problem der Metaphysik,” 131 . 8. Cohen, “Aristotle’s...

..., the tone here is also striking for the antagonism it shows toward history as inheritance or mere “substance.” Perhaps Blumenberg is thinking of Ernst Cassirer’s work Substanzbegriff und Funktionsbegriff , 26 but the notion of history as an active, “unsettling” force also underlies much thinking about...

.... 36. Chakrabarty claims that the Anthropocene concept is about addressing this shock ( “Climate and Capital,” 23 ). 37. Blumenberg, “Prospect for a Theory of Nonconceptuality,” 241–42 . 38. Blumenberg adopts the term animal symbolicum from Ernst Cassirer. However, he takes issue...

... Interpretation of Ernst Cassirer's Theory of Myth.” History and Theory 50 , no. 3 : 328 – 40 . Blumenberg Hans . 1950 . “Die ontologische Distanz: Eine Untersuchung über die Krisis der Phänomenologie Husserls.” Habilitationsschrift , University of Kiel . ———. 1971...

... galaxy.” 14 It is a fitting conclusion to this issue, which hopes to bring into view a few of its multitudinous constellations. The issue concludes with two translations, both of them speeches. Blumenberg gave “In Memory of Ernst Cassirer” as the acceptance speech on the occasion of his receiving...

... by attempts to develop systems of investigation and explanation that could be commensurate to the appar- ent irreducibility of living systems in fact well predates Marxist thought. For Ernst Cassirer this issue was central to Kant’s critical philosophy.29 He argues that the half of the Critique...

...: “It is the flatland; it is the war” (Es ist das Flachland, es ist der Krieg) ( Z , 1081). In 1929 Heidegger would engage in a famous debate with Ernst Cassirer at the Davos sanatorium, which had been converted into a site for a number of intellectual and cultural events after tuberculosis cases had declined...

... a real preparatory work for our things. —Theodor W. Adorno to Max Horkheimer, 1941 The Weimar Republic is often said to have lacked republicans. But surely this is an overstatement. Leading intellectuals of the time, such as the Kantian philosopher Ernst Cassirer, actively voiced their support...

... . Marx Karl , and Engels Friedrich . The Holy Family: Critique of Critical Criticism, against Bruno Bauer and Company . New York : International Publishers , 1975 . Morgenstern Christian . Palmström . Berlin : Cassirer , 1920 . ...

... cosmopolitanism, both Wedderkop and Flechtheim were keen to differentiate Der Querschnitt from elite art journal predecessors such as Kunst und Künstler. Originally founded by Bruno Cassirer in 1902, Kunst und Künstler was later published by the art critic Karl Schef³er and predominantly promoted German...

..., Vida. 2008. “Hans Blumenberg’s Philosophical Anthropology: After Heidegger and Cassirer.” Journal of the History of Philosophy 46, no. 3: 421–48. Pickering, Andrew. 2009. “Psychiatry, Synthetic Brains, and Cybernetics in the Work of W. Ross Ashby.” International Journal of General...

...: Leo Strauss, ed. Heinrich Meier, 3 vols. (Stuttgart: Metzler, 1996–2001).   4. Laurence Lampert, Leo Strauss and Nietzsche (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1996).   5. Strauss wrote his dissertation on Jacobi under the supervision of Ernst Cassirer. See also David Janssens...

... about the impression of one philosopher’s voice in the desert of streamlined society of today. Since I believe in the presence of unknown spiritual friends even on this continent, I look forward to the time when people will contradict the smooth critics who see in Ernst Cassirer the non plus...

... as anti-Marxist. Writing two decades ago, Albrecht Wellmer declared that Arendt’s critique of Marxist politics “has already become a locus classicus and requires no further justification.” 9 88. This brings up Arendt’s philosophical anthropology. See Curthoys, “Ernst Cassirer, Hannah Arendt...