Gusejnova, Dina 
ORCID: 0000-0003-1356-9530
(2006)
Concepts of culture and technology in Germany, 1916-1933: Ernst Cassirer and Oswald Spengler.
Journal of European Studies, 36 (1).
pp. 5-30.
ISSN 0047-2441
Abstract
While recent years have seen a renaissance of interest in works by Cassirer, Spengler’s works have generated considerably less academic attention, to the extent that they are left out of accounts of Cassirer’s political thought. A detailed comparison between their concepts of culture (and technological progress) has not been undertaken before. Cassirer saw in Spengler an important intellectual opponent, and undertook a detailed reversal of Spengler’s propositions. As this essay shows, the tensions between the two thinkers, set in the context of the contemporary political climate, invite a reconsideration of the common characterization of Cassirer as a predominantly apolitical scholar, and emphasize that Spengler’s work ought to be taken far more seriously as a contribution to a philosophical and political debate in late Weimar Germany.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Official URL: | https://journals.sagepub.com/home/jes |
| Additional Information: | © 2006 SAGE Publications |
| Divisions: | International History |
| Subjects: | J Political Science > JC Political theory D History General and Old World > DD Germany P Language and Literature > PN Literature (General) > PN0080 Criticism |
| Date Deposited: | 27 Sep 2019 11:54 |
| Last Modified: | 01 Oct 2024 03:46 |
| URI: | http://eprints.lse.ac.uk/id/eprint/101758 |
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