It's easy to see why this book is considered a classic today. It was originally written in 1933 and most writers and lecturers of the Enlightenment have obviously read it because it's easy to spot this book's influence in their expositions.The author divides philosophical thought into each of its d...
A superb book - Cassirer at his best - on the philosophy of science and realism and the philosophical revolution of the 19th/early 20th cen.
Cassirer argued that the Enlightenment needs to be understood in terms of depth, not breadth and unity of ideas.He also offers an important reminder that our contemporary use of the term "reason" is far more limited than what Enlightenment thinkers meant when they discussed the concept.
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