Author: Cassirer, Ernst
Paperback
199 pages
Published: December 2000
Dover Publications
ISBN: 0486414388
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Perhaps the most important single interpretive work on the philosophical thought of the Renaissance, this thought-provoking volume has long been a classic in the field. It is considered an exceptionally insightful investigation of how the Renaissance spirit fundamentally questioned and undermined medieval thought. Among the topics covered are the work of Nicholas Cusanus, freedom and necessity in the philosophy of the Renaissance, and the subject-object problem in the philosophy of the Renaissance.Cited in Books for College Libraries, 3d ed. and considered a classic in its field, this volume by Ernst Cassirer (1874-1945) is a reprint of a book originally translated from German and published by Harper & Row, New York, 1963. It describes the interdependence of philosophy, language, art, and sci