[CatoRenasci]

Does that mean you like Cassierer or you think he's blown it? I usually understand 'pack it in' to mean give up.

[cornelis]

To give in is to throw in the towel : ) Cassirer is quite immersed in the optimism of the period's thinking. I do read him. Very informative when not dry. But you can't capture the contemporary tension from Cassirer. He did not publish a critique of his period, did he?