Chronology
1. Cassirer’s Life and Works
2. The Neo-Kantian Framework
3. Philosophy of Mathematics
4. Philosophy of Natural Science
5. Philosophy of Culture as the Philosophy of Symbolic Forms
6. The Individual Symbolic Forms, Part I: From Myth to Natural Science
7. The Individual Symbolic Forms, Part II: The Ethics and Politics of Culture
8. Cassirer’s Legacy.
Glossary of Terms
Index
Biography
Samantha Matherne is an Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Harvard University, USA. She has published articles on Kant, neo-Kantianism, phenomenology, and aesthetics. She is a co-author (with Dominic McIver Lopes, Mohan Matthen, and Bence Nanay) of the forthcoming book The Geography of Taste.
"This is an excellent, well-organized, clearly written, and comprehensive book. It does a great job both with expounding the details of Cassirer’s work, at a level that will be appropriate for advanced undergraduate and graduate students, and showing the deep and lasting relevance of Cassirer’s thought today." - Paul Livingston, University of New Mexico, USA
"Matherne has written a guide to Cassirer's philosophy that is both accurate and stimulating to read. She takes into account the whole scope of his work - from his early writings and his professorship during the Weimar Republic, to his years of exile in Sweden and the United States - and provides an important addition to our understanding of his lasting influence." - Jeffrey Andrew Barash, Université de Picardie, Amiens, France
