Graduate Faculty Philosophy Journal

Cassirer and Rousseau: The Problem of a Universal Principle of Justice, by Guido Kreis

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Guido Kreis is Associate Professor of Philosophy at Aarhus University. He is the author of Negative Dialektik des Unendlichen: Kant, Hegel, Cantor (Suhrkamp, 2015), and Cassirer und die Formen des Geistes (Suhrkamp, 2010). His recent articles include “Die Dialektik in der Dialektik der Aufklärung: Die Spur Hegels,” in Max Horkheimer and Theodor W. Adorno: Dialektik der Aufklärung, ed. Gunnar Hindrichs (Klassiker Auslegen, 2017), “Kritik der avantgardistischen Vernunft: Kants Grundlegung des Kunstwerks und Adornos Kriterien der neuen Musik,” in Gesellschaft im Werk: Musikphilosophie nach Adorno, ed. Richard Klein (Karl Alber, 2015), and “The Varieties of Perception: Nonconceptual Content in Kant, Cassirer, and McDowell,” in The Philosophy of Ernst Cassirer: A Novel Assessment, ed. J. Tyler Friedman and Sebastian Luft (De Gruyter, 2015).

Guido Kreis, “Cassirer and Rousseau: The Problem of a Universal Principle of Justice,” trans. Philip Schauss, Graduate Faculty Philosophy Journal 38:2 (2017), pp. 267-87.

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