A Positive Future
David Simpson: Ernst Cassirer, 26 March 2009
Ernst Cassirer: The Last Philosopher of Culture
by Edward Skidelsky.
Princeton, 288 pp., £24.95, January 2009,978 0 691 13134 4 Show More
by Edward Skidelsky.
Princeton, 288 pp., £24.95, January 2009,
The Symbolic Construction of Reality: The Legacy of Ernst Cassirer
edited by Jeffrey Andrew Barash.
Chicago, 223 pp., £26.50, January 2009,978 0 226 03686 1 Show More
edited by Jeffrey Andrew Barash.
Chicago, 223 pp., £26.50, January 2009,
“... Others then and since have commented on the refiguring of the German language under the Nazis. Victor Klemperer kept himself sane during the war years partly by collecting notes for what would eventually be published in 1947 as Lingua Tertii Imperii, a study of language under the Third Reich, and in Austerlitz W.G. Sebald discusses the bureaucratese of ... ”