| 0618.4824 More than a normal debate? – Ernst Cassirer and Martin Heidegger in Davos 1929 | |
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| ã"ø úåîàñ îàéø Thomas Meyer | ñîéðø î.à. |
| More than a normal debate? – Ernst Cassirer and Martin Heidegger in Davos 1929
The Davos disputation between Ernst Cassirer and Martin Heidegger is among the most frequently cited conversations in the history of modern European thought. The 1929 ‘Davos encounter’ between Cassirer and Heidegger has long been viewed by intellectual historians and philosophers as a paradigmatic event not only for its philosophical meaning but also for its apparently cultural-political ramifications. In this view the debate was a fight between humanism and anti-humanism, enlightenment and counter-enlightenment, old and new thinking, or rationalism and irrationalism. But what happened really in March 1929? The story begins at 7th Dezember 1923 in Hamburg. Cassirer invited Heidegger to speak about “Problems and means of phenomelogical investigation”. In 1928 Heidegger published a large and critical review about Ernst Cassirers “The Philosophy of Symbolic Forms. Volume II: Mythical Thought” (first published 1925) in the “Deutsche Literaturzeitung”. In 1929 the meeting at the “II. Davoser Hochschulkurse” (March, 17th to April, 6th) was the first personal contact after six years. As a reaction of the debate Heidegger published 1930 his book “Kant and the problem of metaphysics”. Again one year later Cassirer “answers” with an furious essay in the “Kantstudien” against the provocation. The last contact before Cassirers emigration in 1933, was an invitation given by Heidegger in Freiburg. Cassirer held a lecture on Jean Jacques Rousseau. The aim of the seminar is to reconstruct the philosophical aspects of the relationship Cassirer/Heidegger. 1. Introduction – Davos 1929 in the literature and in the archive 2. Thomas Mann’s “The magic mountain” – The debate between Naphta and Settembrini as model for Davos? 3. Ernst Cassirer’ “Philosophy of Symbolic Forms” – a new “Cultural philosophy” 4. Martin Heidegger – His review on Cassirer and his Kant-Lectures 1927/28 5.- 7. The Cassirer-Lectures (unpublished) 8.- 9. The Heidegger-Lectures (unpublished) 10.- 11. The Davos-Protocol 12. “Kant and the problem of metaphysics” and Cassirer’s review 13. More than a normal debate? – A final discussion | |
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