Ernst Cassirer: The Last Philosopher of CultureThis is the first English language intellectual biography of the German Jewish philosopher Ernst Cassirer (1874 1945), a leading figure on the Weimar intellectual scene and one of the last and finest representatives of the liberal idealist tradition. Edward Skidelsky traces the development of Cassirer's thought in its historical and intellectual setting. He presents Cassirer, the author of The Philosophy of Symbolic Forms, as a defender of the liberal