Cassirer–Heidegger debate

The Cassirer–Heidegger debate is an encounter between the philosophers Martin Heidegger and Ernst Cassirer in March 1929 during the Second Davos Hochschulkurs (Davos University Conferences) which held its opening session in the Hotel Belvédère in Davos on March 17, 1929.[1] The debate was about the significance of Kantian notions of freedom and rationality.

Cassirer argues that while Kant's Critique of Pure Reason emphasizes human temporality and finitude, he also sought to situate human cognition within a broader conception of humanity. Cassirer challenges Heidegger's relativism by invoking the universal validity of truths discovered by the exact and moral sciences.[2][3][4][5]

In Continental Divide: Heidegger, Cassirer, Davos (Harvard University Press, 2010), Peter E. Gordon reconstructs the debate between Heidegger and Cassirer, demonstrating its significance as a point of rupture in Continental thought that implicated all the major philosophical movements of the day.[6][7][8][9] Continental Divide was awarded the Jacques Barzun Prize from the American Philosophical Society in 2010.

Rudolf Carnap was also in the audience at Davos.[10]

See also

Notes
  1. Friedman (2011:1).
  2. Schalow, Frank (November 2012). "Revisiting the Heidegger–Cassirer Debate". Comparative and Continental Philosophy. 4 (2): 307–315. doi:10.1179/ccp.4.2.b536328017k87538. ISSN 1757-0638.
  3. "When Philosophy Mattered". The New Republic. 2011-01-13. Retrieved 26 November 2018.
  4. Hamburg, Carl H. (1964). "A Cassirer-Heidegger Seminar". Philosophy and Phenomenological Research. 25 (2): 208–222. doi:10.2307/2105394. JSTOR 2105394.
  5. Waite, Geoffrey (1998). "On Esotericism: Heidegger and/or Cassirer at Davos". Political Theory. 26 (5): 603–651. doi:10.1177/0090591798026005001. JSTOR 191766.
  6. Isaacs, Alick (2013-05-11). "Continental Divide: Heidegger, Cassirer, Davos by Peter E. Gordon (review)". Common Knowledge. 19 (2): 393–394. doi:10.1215/0961754X-2073649. ISSN 1538-4578.
  7. McGrath, Larry (2011). "Continental Divide: Heidegger, Cassirer, Davos (review)". MLN. 126 (5): 1140–1144. doi:10.1353/mln.2011.0085. ISSN 1080-6598.
  8. Wolin, Richard (2012-04-01). "Peter E. Gordon. Continental Divide: Heidegger, Cassirer, Davos. Cambridge: Harvard University Press. 2010. Pp. xiv, 426. $39.95". The American Historical Review. 117 (2): 598–600. doi:10.1086/ahr.117.2.598-a. ISSN 1937-5239.
  9. Winters, David (2012). "Peter E. Gordon, Continental Divide: Heidegger, Cassirer, Davos". Radical Philosophy. 172: 61.
  10. Friedman (2011:7).

References
  • Otto Friedrich Bollnow and Joachim Ritter, "Davoser Disputation zwischen Ernst Cassirer und Martin Heidegger" (transcription: March 25, 1929), in Martin Heidegger, Kant und das Problem der Metaphysik, 5th ed., Vittorio Klostermann, 1991, Appendix IV, pp. 274–96. In English as "Davos Disputation Between Ernst Cassirer and Martin Heidegger," in Kant and the Problem of Metaphysics, 4th ed., Indiana University Press, 1990, pp. 171–85.
  • Michael Friedman, A Parting of the Ways: Carnap, Cassirer, and Heidegger (Open Court, 2011 [2000]).
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