A Parting of the Ways
Subtitle: Carnap, Cassirer, and Heidegger
Publisher: Open Court Publishing Company
Published: November 30, 2000
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 144
ISBN-13: 9780812694253
Subjects: Analytical & linguistic philosophy; Phenomenology & Existentialism; 20th century; Philosophy; Carnap, Rudolf,; Philosophy, European; History & Surveys - Modern; Analysis (Philosophy); History & Surveys - General; 1891-1970
First sentence: Davos, Switzerland; March 17-April 6, 1929.
Description: "In this study of the common origins of analytic and continental philosophy, Friedman looks at how social and political events intertwined and influenced philosophy during the early twentieth century, ultimately giving rise to the two very different schools of thought.".

"He shows how these two approaches, now practiced largely in isolation from one another, were once opposing tendencies within a common discussion. Already polarized by their philosophical disagreements, these approaches were further split apart by the rise of Naziism and the resulting emigration of all influential German-speaking philosophers except for Heidegger.

Although the book gives a general overview of the philosophical issues of the period, the author pays special attention to the relationships among three key twentieth-century philosophers: Rudolf Carnap, Ernst Cassirer, and Martin Heidegger."--BOOK JACKET.