Cassirer and Heidegger

an intermezzo on magic mountain

Deniz Coskun

pp. 57-85

in: Deniz Coskun (ed), Law as symbolic form, Berlin, Springer, 2007

Abstract

In the period that Ernst Cassirer defended the Weimar Republic and the idea of human rights as embodied in the Weimar Constitution, he took a stance against the philosopher Martin Heidegger in Davos, Switzerland, during the Second Davos University Courses (hereinafterr Davos).

Cited authors

Heidegger Martin

Cassirer Ernst