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The Philosophy of Symbolic Forms Ernst Cassirer

The Philosophy of Symbolic Forms By Ernst Cassirer

The Philosophy of Symbolic Forms by Ernst Cassirer


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This is the fourth volume of Cassirer's The Philosophy of Symbolic Forms. In these writings, Cassirer grounds his conception of symbolic forms on a particular notion of human nature and discusses Basis Phenomena.

The Philosophy of Symbolic Forms Summary

The Philosophy of Symbolic Forms: Volume 4: The Metaphysics of Symbolic Forms by Ernst Cassirer

At his death in 1945, the influential German philosopher Ernst Cassirer left manuscripts for the fourth and final volume of his magnum opus, The Philosophy of Symbolic Forms. John Michael Krois and Donald Phillip Verene have edited these writings and translated them into English for the first time, bringing to completion Cassirer's major treatment of the concept of symbolic form.

Ernst Cassirer believed that all the forms of representation that human beings use-language, myth, art, religion, history, science-are symbolic, and the concept of symbolic forms was the basis of his thinking on these subjects. In this volume, which contains one text written in 1928 and another in about 1940, Cassirer presents the metaphysics that is implicit in his epistemology and phenomenology of culture. The earlier text grounds the philosopher's conception of symbolic forms on a notion of human nature that makes a general distinction between Geist (mind) and life. In the later text, he discusses Basis Phenomena, an original concept not mentioned in any of his previous works, and he compares his own viewpoint with those of other modern philosophers, notably Bergson and Heidegger.

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NLS9780300074338
9780300074338
0300074336
The Philosophy of Symbolic Forms: Volume 4: The Metaphysics of Symbolic Forms by Ernst Cassirer
New
Paperback
Yale University Press
1998-01-21
264
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