The symbolic construction of reality: the legacy of Ernst Cassirer
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Veröffentlicht: Chicago University of Chicago Press 2008
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Beschreibung:"The articles published in this volume were presented in preliminary form at the conference "Ernst Cassirer: symbol, science, and culture" held in Jerusalem and Tel Aviv in May 1998"--Acknowledgments
Includes bibliographical references and index
Acknowledgments; Introduction; Part One Foundations: Articulations of the Symbol; 1. Symbol and History: Ernst Cassirer's Critique of the Philosophy of History; 2. Ernst Cassirer on Nicholas of Cusa: Between Conjectural Knowledge and Religious Pluralism; 3. History and Philosophy in Ernst Cassirer's System of Symbolic Forms; 4. Cassirer's Philosophy of Symbolic Forms: A Foundational Reading; Part Two Themes: Symbolic Forms and Philosophy; 5. Cassirer's Metaphysics; 6. The Limits of Order: Cassirer and Heidegger on Finitude and Infinity
In 1933 eminent philosopher Ernst Cassirer (1874-1945) fled Nazi Germany for the United States. His fame in Europe having already been established through a public debate with Martin Heidegger in 1929, Cassirer would go on to become a noteworthy influence on American culture. His most important early writings focused on the symbol and symbolic interaction, exploring how human cultures--from early myth-based ones to our own modern, scientifically oriented time--have used symbols to mediate the basic forms of experience. Following this work, Cassirer extended his insights to encompass a broad spec
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9780226036892
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