Ernst Cassirer's philosophy of culture has been much discussed in
recent years. However, it remains unclear how it evolved from his
older theory of knowledge. This study deals with this question on
the basis of Cassirer's 'disposition' of a 'philosophy of the
symbolic', reconstructed here for the first time. This text shows
that the 'symbolic' refers to culture as a whole and to its
inherent diversity. Therefore, 'the symbolic' includes the
relationship between the general transcendental conditions of
culture and its empirical specificities in language and languages,
art and the arts, myth and myths, science and disciplines. Cassirer
does not comprehend this empirical and specific reality of
symbolization depending on pre-existing transcendental conditions.
Instead, he proceeds from the empirical diversity of the
symbolisations and reflects on their simultaneously general and
specific conditions. Thus, Cassirer embarks on a path that he finds
paved in Kant's "Critique of Judgement": He consequently defines
'the symbolic' as the horizon for a reflective approach based on
empirical findings - and not as the foundation of a systematic
derivation of the diversity of culture in the style of the
idealistic tradition.
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