Article ID: CBB578979221

Ernst Cassirer’s Philosophy of Culture: An Economic Assessment of Scope and Limitations (2021)

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Cassirer’s philosophy of culture has been examined through various disciplines. Until now, however, no such assessment has taken place within the field of economics. In this paper, I attempt to develop this unexplored task through the economic concepts of commodity, money, capital, and culture. I argue that these concepts can help to draw an updated concept of capitalism and power relations created through capitalist planning. I also claim that these concepts can contribute to understanding the historical specificity of capitalist culture, by understanding it as an historical process of social production. I conclude that these concepts are able to defy Cassirer’s view of capitalism as a system in which economic prosperity and political liberty could be achieved in a universal manner. Finally, I demonstrate that these concepts can shed light on Cassirer’s failed quest to find a coherent universal culture within capitalism.

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Authors & Contributors
Suter, Mischa
Guy, Stéphane
Jin, Xiaoxing
Mitchell, Timothy
Simon Truwant
Angelo Calemme
Concepts
Capitalism
Science and politics
Economics
Science and economics
Science and culture
Ethnicity
Time Periods
19th century
20th century, early
Early modern
Modern
18th century
17th century
Places
United States
Switzerland
Germany
Argentina
South America
Italy
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