Includes bibliographical references (pages 269-279) and index.

Prologue : the alienation of reason -- The Marburg school -- The new logic -- Between irony and tragedy -- The philosophy of symbolic forms -- Logical positivism -- The philosophy of life -- Heidegger -- Politics.

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This is the first English-language intellectual biography of the German-Jewish philosopher Ernst Cassirer (1874-1945), a leading figure on the Weimar intellectual scene and one of the last and finest representatives of the liberal-idealist tradition. Edward Skidelsky traces the development of Cassirer's thought in its historical and intellectual setting. He presents Cassirer, the author of The Philosophy of Symbolic Forms, as a defender of the liberal ideal of culture in an increasingly fragmented world, and as someone who grappled with the opposing forces of scientific positivism and romantic.

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