In this classic work of intellectual history, Ernst Cassirer
provides both a cogent synthesis and a penetrating analysis of one
of history's greatest intellectual epochs: the Enlightenment.
Arguing that there was a common foundation beneath the diverse
strands of thought of this period, he shows how Enlightenment
philosophers drew upon the ideas of the preceding centuries even
while radically transforming them to fit the modern world. In
Cassirer's view, the Enlightenment liberated philosophy from the
realm of pure thought and restored it to its true place as an
active and creative force through which knowledge of the world is
achieved.
In a new foreword, Peter Gay considers "The Philosophy of the
Enlightenment" in the context in which it was written--Germany in
1932, on the precipice of the Nazi seizure of power and one of the
greatest assaults on the ideals of the Enlightenment. He also
argues that Cassirer's work remains a trenchant defense against
enemies of the Enlightenment in the twenty-first century.
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