Hegel, Cassirer and Heidegger
pp. 106-132
in: Lisa Herzog (ed), Hegel's thought in Europe, Berlin, Springer, 2013Abstract
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?
