Ernst Cassirer : La vita della forma. Scritti su Schiller

Ernst Cassirer; Luigi Laino; Chiara Russo Krauss

doi:10.6093/978-88-6887-388-2

Ernst Cassirer : La vita della forma. Scritti su Schiller

Authors

Ernst Cassirer

Luigi Laino

University of Naples Federico II

https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8129-0454

Chiara Russo Krauss

University of Naples Federico II

https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0812-2996

DOI: https://doi.org/10.6093/978-88-6887-388-2

Keywords:

Neo-Kantianism, Ethics, Aesthetics, Symbolic forms, Epistemology

Synopsis

Publisher: FedOA - Federico II University Press

Series: Studies in Neo-Kantianism

Pages: 183

Language: Italian/German

Abstract: The volume presents, for the first time in Italian translation, three Cassirer essays devoted to Schiller—The Method of Idealism in Schiller’s Philosophical Writings (1921), Schiller’s Philosophical World‑View (a cycle of public lectures from the 1920/21 academic year), and Schiller and Shaftesbury (1935)—preceded by a Preface by Chiara Russo Krauss and an introductory essay by Luigi Laino that reconstructs their context, sources, and theoretical import. Conceived within the PRIN 2022 project “The Neo‑Kantian Reception of Schiller between Platonism and Kantianism,” the book documents the zenith of Schiller’s influence on the Marburg School. The underlying motif of Cassirer’s idealism is, in fact, closely bound to Schiller’s reworking of Kant’s transcendental philosophy, mediating between spontaneity and receptivity, spirit and nature. To know is always to give form to matter, and thus epistemology and aesthetics appear as two sides of the same coin. The volume’s title, which alludes to the “life of form,” captures this crucial intersection.

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Author Biographies

Luigi Laino, University of Naples Federico II

Luigi Laino is currently a Research Fellow (RTD-A) in Theoretical Philosophy at the University of Naples Federico II, Department of Humanities, where he teaches Philosophy of Technology in the Bachelor’s program in Philosophy. He also teaches Philosophy of Scientific Knowledge at the Department of Physics, as well as Theory and Ethics of Big Data and AI at the Department of Electrical Engineering and Information Technology (DIETI). Additionally, he lectures on Ethics for Engineering and Ethical and Social Issues in AI within the Master’s program Human-Centered AI, a joint initiative of the University of Naples Federico II, Technological University Dublin, Budapest University of Technology and Economics, and HU University of Applied Sciences Utrecht. His research focuses on the history of the philosophy of science and the philosophy of technology, on which he has published more than 30 scientific papers.

Chiara Russo Krauss, University of Naples Federico II

Chiara Russo Krauss is Associate Professor of History of Philosophy at the University of Naples, Federico II. Her field of expertise is German philosophy of the nineteenth century, with a particular focus on the debate about scientific psychology. She coordinates SToNE – Laboratory for the Study of Neo-Kantianism and is P.I. of the research project “The neo-Kantian reception of Schiller”. She has published several papers about philosophers such as Heinrich Rickert, Richard Avenarius, Wilhelm Wundt, Heymann Steinthal, and Friedrich Albert Lange, as well as the books The Philosophy of Joseph Petzoldt (Bloomsbury, 2023) and Wundt, Avenarius and Scientific Psychology (Palgrave-McMillan, 2019).