The Philosophy of the Enlightenment Author:Ernst Cassirer "In this celebrated study Ernst Cassirer attempted one of the most difficult kinds of historical reconstruction. The distinction in all his historical writing lay in his treatment of philosophic systems in relation to the concrete moral and intellectual problems of their time, and in his meticulous tracing of the ways in which technical philosop... more »hies are generated, and a larger philosophic self-consciousness nourished, by the process of critical reflection on the problems created by cultural change."« less