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Ernst Cassirer

Ernst Cassirer

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Ernst Cassirer was a German philosopher. Trained within the Neo-Kantian Marburg School, he initially followed his mentor Hermann Cohen in attempting to supply an idealistic philosophy of science; after Cohen's death, he developed a theory of symbolism, and used it to expand phenomenology of knowledge into a more general philosophy of culture. He is one of the leading 20th century advocates of philosophical idealism. At Hamburg Cassirer discovered the Library of the Cultural Sciences founded by Aby Warburg. Warburg was an art historian who was particularly interested in ritual and myth as sources of surviving forms of emotional expression. In Philosophy of Symbolic Forms (1923–1929) Cassirer argues that man (as he put it in his more popular 1944 book Essay on Man) is a "symbolic animal". Whereas animals perceive their world by instincts and direct sensory perception, humans create a universe of symbolic meanings. Cassirer is particularly interested in natural language and myth. He argues that science and mathematics developed from natural language, and religion and art from myth.

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  • Rousseau, Kant, Goethe

    Representative edition published 2014

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  • Rousseau Kant Goethe Filosofa Y Cultura En La Europa Del Siglo De Las Luces

    Representative edition published 2007

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  • Die Philosophie der Aufklärung

    Representative edition published 2007

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  • Aufsatze und kleine Schriften (1936-1940)

    Representative edition published 2006

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  • Vorlesungen und studien zur philosophischen Anthropologie

    Representative edition published 2005

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  • Axel Hägerström, eine Studie zur schwedischen Philosophie der Gegenwart

    Representative edition published 2005

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  • Descartes

    Representative edition published 2005

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  • Filosofija prosves c enija

    Representative edition published 2004

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  • Kulturphilosophie

    Representative edition published 2004

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  • Substance and Function & Einstein's Theory of Relativity

    Representative edition published 2004

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  • Goethe-Vorlesungen

    Representative edition published 2003

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  • Substance and function

    Representative edition published 2003

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  • Zur Metaphysik der symbolischen Formen

    Representative edition published 2003

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  • Philosophie der symbolischen Formen 3. Phänomenologie der Erkenntnis. Gesetze, Begründungen, Materialien

    Representative edition published 2002

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  • Vom Mythus des Staates

    Representative edition published 2002

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  • Philosophie der symbolischen Formen

    Representative edition published 2002

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  • Zur Einsteinischen Relativitätstheorie

    Representative edition published 2001

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  • Kants Leben und Lehre

    Representative edition published 2001

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  • Filosofia de las Formas Simbolicas, Volume II

    Representative edition published 2000

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  • The Logic of the Cultural Sciences

    Representative edition published 2000

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  • Descartes, Corneille, Christine de Suède

    Representative edition published 2000

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  • Substanzbegriff und Funktionsbegriff

    Representative edition published 2000

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  • Individuum und Kosmos in der Philosophie der Renaissance

    Representative edition published 2000

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  • Philosophische Schriften in vier Bänden

    Representative edition published 1999

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