Meeting of the American Friends of Marbach 2015
The German-Jewish philosopher
Ernst Cassirer, co-founder of the University of Hamburg and rival of Martin Heidegger, taught at Yale University between 1941 and 1944. The theme of this year’s annual meeting of the
American Friends of Marbach is inspired by the fact that the Beinecke Library at Yale University holds Ernst Cassirer’s papers, while the German Literature Archive in Marbach once began its collection of philosophers’ literary estates with the work of Martin Heidegger. Connecting philosophy and science, aesthetic and cultural forms, political and social theory, Cassirer’s work is of particular importance in a moment in which the meaning and place of the humanities are subject to intense debate. In lectures that discuss Cassirer and Heidegger’s papers in the archives in Yale and Marbach, prominent scholars from the US and Germany will examine Cassirer’s aesthetic and philosophical work and the significance of his concept of “symbolic forms” for the humanities today, ranging from music to art and literature.
Michael Friedman, Professor of History and Philosophy of Science and Technology at Stanford University, is giving the keynote lecture on May 7 at 5:30pm.
For more details, visit the event's
website.
Sponsored by Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library, New Haven; Edward J. and Dorothy Clarke Kempf Fund, Yale University; The Max Kade Foundation, Inc., New York; The Goethe-Institut New York.
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