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Ernst Cassirer (1874–1945)

Author of Language and Myth

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Ernst Cassirer, a German neo-Kantian philosopher, taught at several European universities before moving to the United States and teaching at Yale (1941-1944) and Columbia universities. A prolific historian of philosophy, Cassirer was influenced by Immanuel Kant and Georg Hegel but originated his show more own distinctive doctrine. The centerpiece of Cassirer's thought is his theory of symbolic forms. He construed representation, the ground of symbolic form, to be essentially symbolic, fusing perceptual materials with conceptual meanings. The human species, he taught, is essentially a symbolizing animal. He maintained that symbolic forms are manifest in different modes-languages, myth, art, science, and religion. Cassirer utilized his theory of symbolic forms in the elaboration of a flexible philosophy of culture. (Bowker Author Biography) show less

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Works by Ernst Cassirer

Language and Myth (1924) 604 copies
The Myth of the State (1946) 294 copies
Kant's Life and Thought (1918) 160 copies
Las ciencias de la cultura (1951) 16 copies
Freiheit und Form (1961) 10 copies
Descartes (1978) 7 copies
Da Talete a Platone (1984) 6 copies
Gesammelte Werke (1980) 6 copies
Kant e la matematica (1991) 5 copies
Geist und Leben (1993) 5 copies
Über Rousseau (2012) 4 copies
Zur modernen Physik (1964) 3 copies
Dil ve Mit (2018) 3 copies
Kants Leben und Lehre (2011) 2 copies
Einstein e i filosofi (2009) 2 copies
Die Sprache (1988) 2 copies
L'école de Marbourg (1998) 1 copy
Filozofia oświecenia (2010) 1 copy
Mit państwa (2007) 1 copy
Saggio sull'uomo (2004) 1 copy

Associated Works

Critical Theory Since Plato (1971) — Contributor, some editions — 393 copies
Candide [Norton Critical Edition, 1st ed.] (1966) — Contributor — 150 copies
Philosophical Issues: A Contemporary Introduction (1972) — Contributor — 17 copies
Zu Begriff und Problem der Renaissance (1969) — Contributor — 1 copy

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