Continental Divide: Heidegger, Cassirer, Davos | |
Author: | Peter Gordon |
Country: | United States |
Language: | English |
Subject: | Continental philosophy |
Publisher: | Harvard University Press |
Pub Date: | 2010 |
Media Type: | Print (hardcover and paperback) |
Pages: | 448 |
Isbn: | 978-0-674-06417-1 |
Continental Divide: Heidegger, Cassirer, Davos is a 2010 book by Peter Gordon, in which the author reconstructs the famous 1929 debate between Martin Heidegger and Ernst Cassirer at Davos, Switzerland, demonstrating its significance as a point of rupture in Continental thought that implicated all the major philosophical movements of the day.[1] [2] [3] [4] Continental Divide was awarded the Jacques Barzun Prize from the American Philosophical Society in 2010.[5]