Introduction to the Exchange between Abbt and Mendelssohn on the Vocation of Man, by Anne Pollok
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Anne Pollok is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at the University of South Carolina. She is the author of the monograph Facetten des Menschen: Zur Anthropologie Moses Mendelssohns (Felix Meiner, 2010). Her recent articles and essays include “Significant Formation: An Intersubjective Approach to Aesthetic Experience in Cassirer and Langer,” Graduate Faculty Philosophy Journal (2016), “The First and Second Person Perspective in History: Or, Why History is ‘Culture Fiction,’” in The Philosophy of Ernst Cassirer: A Novel Assessment, ed. J. Tyler Friedman and Sebastian Luft (De Gruyter, 2015), “The Power of Rituals: Mendelssohn and Cassirer on the Religious Dimension of Bildung,” Religious Studies (2014), and “Kant’s Defeated Counterpart: Moses Mendelssohn on the Beauty, Mechanics, and Death of the Human Soul,” in Kant’s Philosophy of the Unconscious, ed. Piero Giordanetti, Riccardo Pozzo, and Marco Sgarbi (De Gruyter, 2012).
Anne Pollok, “Introduction to the Exchange between Abbt and Mendelssohn on the Vocation of Man,” Graduate Faculty Philosophy Journal 39:1 (2018), pp. 229-35.