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This chapter is dedicated to the Cassirer’s theories concerning The Logik of Humanities and others Cassirer’s Essais on the «Philosophy of Culture.» The first part presents the concrete passages of mutual criticism on language and its relations with art and in relation to the interpretation of the modern history of philosophy. Brief final remarks recapitulate some radically different ways of understanding idealism with respect to the spiritual activity of man in the history.
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For more extensive critical literature in this and in the following notes I refer to Raio (1991): 213–246.
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See Lomonaco (2011). The other passages translated into English were compared with the edition of the Gesammelte Werke (Hamburg: Felix Meiner Verlag) and with that Italian cited below.
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On this point see Ricci (2009): 469, 470.
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See Martirano 1997: 411 ff.
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See Rovatti 1968.
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See Martirano 1997: 412 and note.
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On this theme see Lomonaco (2013).
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Lomonaco 2012.
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cf. Randazzo 2005.
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Lomonaco, F. (2016). Historiographical Language and Temporality in Ernst Cassirer. In: Santoianni, F. (eds) The Concept of Time in Early Twentieth-Century Philosophy. Studies in Applied Philosophy, Epistemology and Rational Ethics, vol 24. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-24895-0_15
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