Continental Divide: Heidegger, Cassirer, Davos

Continental Divide: Heidegger, Cassirer, Davos
Cover of the first edition
AuthorPeter Gordon
LanguageEnglish
SubjectContinental philosophy
PublisherHarvard University Press
Publication date
2010
Publication placeUnited States
Media typePrint (hardcover and paperback)
Pages448
ISBN978-0-674-06417-1

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. Continental Divide was awarded the Jacques Barzun Prize from the American Philosophical Society in 2010.