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(2013) Hegel's thought in Europe, Dordrecht, Springer.

Hegel, Cassirer and Heidegger

Michael Inwood

pp. 106-132

Writing around the turn of the eighteenth to the nineteenthth century, Hegel could, more or less, assimilate the natural and social sciences of his day and accommodate them in a system. This provided philosophy with a flattering role: it could unify and systematize all the knowledge available to human beings. But soon after Hegel's time, the expansion of the sciences and their growing prestige made this impossible. What were philosophers to do?

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DOI: 10.1057/9781137309228_7

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Inwood, M. (2013)., Hegel, Cassirer and Heidegger, in L. Herzog (ed.), Hegel's thought in Europe, Dordrecht, Springer, pp. 106-132.

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