Ernst Cassirer : an annotated bibliography /

Their work may have a relatively small audience, but the authors (both from the University of Wyoming) have produced a remarkable volume. The 1,178 annotated entries are now the most comprehensive Cassirer bibliography. The operant word in the preceding sentence is "annotated," for that feature makes this unlike previous bibliographies such as the two by Donald Phillip Verene in the Bulletin of Bibliography: "Ernst Cassirer: A Bibliography," 24 (1964): 104-106; and "Ernst Cassirer, Critical Work 1964-1970," 29 (1972): 21-22, 24, or those that occur as appendages to books about Cassirer, all usually mere listings. Eggers and Mayer have annotated the 167 entries by Cassirer and the 1,011 entries about him in an easily readable style, supplying tables of contents where applicable. The few entries this reviewer sampled proved the accuracy of the authors' summaries. There is a 14-page introduction that provides a good reminder to the reader about the Cassirer oeuvre and the interest that it generated. The 15-page index includes not only the names of the authors of the entries, but also the names that are mentioned in the annotations. Recommended for research libraries. -G. A. Rudolph, University of Nebraska--Lincoln