Question for Dennis Redmond (Adorno on Cassirer)

Justin Schwartz jkschw at hotmail.com
Tue Apr 17 14:15:26 PDT 2001


Michael Friedman has a book on the Davos debate, The Parting of the Ways, Pretty interesting, also talking about the revolutionary socialist roots of logical positivism (!) (Carnap was also at Davos).

I like Gombo, say what you will. He was a great scholar, though very formalistic.

--jks


>In the twenties, Cassirer and Heidegger were competing to establish a
>kind of German philosophical take on Modernity and the currents of
>early 20c thought. They had a famous debate in Davos (1929?), which I
>haven't read.

. The
>English art historian EH Gombrich later took it over [which
>intellectually was a damn shame. Gombrich was a friend of Popper's and
>made it his duty to erase the evil Hegelian influence from the
>archives of english art history writing---stupid twit---of course on
>the theory that art history should be objective scholarship and not
>contaminated by romantic rubbish, frump, frump, here, here--kiss my
>ass EH. What a master of writing about art with nothing to
>say.... Unfortunately, it was Gombrick and not Cassirer or Hauser who
>was used in my introductory art history courses---back when (60s). But
>I digress.]
>
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