On the eve of the “ Philosophy of Symbolic Forms ”

Cassirer and Hegel

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ID21603409
AuthorsMassimo Ferrari (0000-0002-0597-9022, Department of Philosophy and Education Sciences University of Turin Turin Italy, corresponding author)
Year2023
Volume31
Issue4
Pages1125-1134
Publication date2023-12-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueEuropean Journal of Philosophy (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0966-8373 • E-ISSN: 1468-0378
PublisherWiley (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1111/ejop.12915
OpenAlexW4389734818
LanguageEN
Citations received1
References cited10

This paper aims at focusing on Cassirer's relationship with Hegel during the crucial period when Cassirer is outlining and completing the Philosophy of Symbolic Forms in the early 1920s. The main thesis is that Cassirer has never abandoned his original Neo‐Kantian approach, despite the fact that it has been enriched within the perspective of a philosophy of culture indebted to some extent also to Hegel's Phenomenology of Spirit . However, Cassirer maintains that Kant's critical idealism must be contrasted with Hegel's absolute idealism, keeping thereby open the process of the spirit that cannot close itself in a definitive logical structure. This critical stance is shared by some contemporaries of Cassirer such as Dilthey, Windelband, and above all Natorp. We have thus to read Cassirer's project against the historical backdrop of the ‘Hegel‐Renaissance’ in Germany, a circumstance that, according to the author, can contribute to a more adequate understanding of Cassirer's opus magnum

Art · Epistemology · Hegelianism · Idealism · Literature · Magnum opus · Nietzsche, Schopenhauer, and Hegel · Philosophy · Philosophy and Historical Thought · Philosophy, Science, and History

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