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As one moves into the second half of the twentieth century, backward glances over failures and achievements of the first half are hard to suppress. Depending upon what one is considering, different appraisals will be in order, ranging all the way from exultation to disillusionment or total indifference. What is the situation in regard to “the philosophy of our time”? Or better: what can one significantly say about it in all brevity?

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  1. So far translated: Vol I. Language, Yale University Press, New Haven, 1953; Vol II. Myth, ibid., 1954. Untranslated: Vol III, German title Phaenomenology der Erkenntnis, Verlag Bruno Cassirer, Berlin, 1929

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  2. Translated by W. C. Swabey, Chicago, Open Court Publishing Co, 1923; republished by Dover Press, 1954

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  8. A comprehensive bibliography (up to 1949 ) was prepared by the author (and W Solmitz) in: The Library of Living Philosophers; Vol. VI (Cassirer); pp 881–910.

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© 1956 Martinus Nijhoff, The Hague, Netherlands

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Hamburg, C.H. (1956). Introduction. In: Symbol and Reality. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-9461-7_1

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