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Continental Divide - Heidegger, Cassirer, Davos (Paperback)
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Continental Divide - Heidegger, Cassirer, Davos (Paperback)
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In the spring of 1929, Martin Heidegger and Ernst Cassirer met for
a public conversation in Davos, Switzerland. They were arguably the
most important thinkers in Europe, and their exchange touched upon
the most urgent questions in the history of philosophy: What is
human finitude? What is objectivity? What is culture? What is
truth? Over the last eighty years the Davos encounter has acquired
an allegorical significance, as if it marked an ultimate and
irreparable rupture in twentieth-century Continental thought. Here,
in a reconstruction at once historical and philosophical, Peter
Gordon reexamines the conversation, its origins and its aftermath,
resuscitating an event that has become entombed in its own
mythology. Through a close and painstaking analysis, Gordon
dissects the exchange itself to reveal that it was at core a
philosophical disagreement over what it means to be human. But
Gordon also shows how the life and work of these two philosophers
remained closely intertwined. Their disagreement can be understood
only if we appreciate their common point of departure as thinkers
of the German interwar crisis, an era of rebellion that touched all
of the major philosophical movements of the day-life-philosophy,
philosophical anthropology, neo-Kantianism, phenomenology, and
existentialism. As Gordon explains, the Davos debate would continue
to both inspire and provoke well after the two men had gone their
separate ways. It remains, even today, a touchstone of
philosophical memory. This clear, riveting book will be of great
interest not only to philosophers and to historians of philosophy
but also to anyone interested in the great intellectual ferment of
Europe's interwar years.
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