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"The Philosophy of Symbolic Forms is a milestone in twentieth
century philosophy. Promoting a philosophical vision informed by
Kant, it incorporates the philosophical advances achieved in the
nineteenth century by German Idealism and Neo-Kantianism, whilst
acknowledging the contributions made by his contemporary
phenomenologists. It also encompasses empirical and historical
research on culture and the most contemporary work on myth,
linguistics and psychopathology. As such, it ranks in philosophical
importance along with other major works of the twentieth century,
such as Edmund Husserl's Logical Investigations, Martin Heidegger's
Being and Time, and Ludwig Wittgenstein's Tractatus
Logico-Philosophicus. In the first volume, Cassirer explores the
symbolic form of language. Already recognized by thinkers in the
tradition of German Idealism, such as Wilhelm von Humboldt,
language is the primary medium by which we interact with others and
form a common world. As Cassirer emphasizes in the famous Davos
Debate with Heidegger, 'there is one objective human world, in
which a bridge is built from individual to individual. That I find
in the primal phenomenon of language.' The famous trias Cassirer
discerns in the functioning of language - the functions of
expression (Ausdruck), presentation (Darstellung), and
signification (Bedeutung) - has become paradigmatic for accounts of
language, philosophical, linguistic, and anthropological alike."
Sebastian Luft, Professor of Philosophy, Marquette University, USA.
This new translation makes Cassirer's seminal work available to a
new generation of scholars. Each volume includes a translator's
introduction by Steve G. Lofts, a foreword by Peter E. Gordon, a
glossary of key terms, and an index.
"The Philosophy of Symbolic Forms is one of the landmarks of
twentieth century philosophy. Drawing from the influential work of
Wilhelm Dilthey, it transformed neo-Kantianism into a new robust
philosophy of culture. The second volume, on Mythical Thinking,
analyzes the fundamental layers of perception and expression as
well as the articulations with religion and the dialectic with
other forms, essentially language and art. The intellectual breadth
of the volume is remarkable. It initiated the debate with Martin
Heidegger and prompted a long-lasting meditation by Hans
Blumenberg. We are only beginning to recognize its importance for
our understanding of the power of images in the construction of
aesthetics, the self, and the socio-political world. It initiated a
discussion within French sociology (Emile Durkheim, Marcel Mauss)
that ultimately resurfaced in Pierre Bourdieu, while today it is
considered as a resourceful path for cultural and critical theory
(Drucilla Cornell and Kenneth M. Panfilio). Finally, this volume
also offers solid grounds for a political critique of Nazism -
specifically: Alfred Rosenberg's Myth of the 20th Century and Adolf
Hitler's Mein Kampf - as well as the new emerging totalitarian
ideologies." Fabien Capeilleres, Professor of Philosophy, editor of
the French edition of Cassirer's Works. This new translation makes
Cassirer's seminal work available to a new generation of scholars.
Each volume includes a translator's introduction by Steve G. Lofts,
a foreword by Peter E. Gordon, a glossary of key terms, and an
index.
"In his Phenomenology of Cognition, Cassirer provides a
comprehensive and systematic account of the dynamic process
involved in the whole of human culture as it progresses from the
world of myth and its feeling of social belonging to the highest
abstractions of mathematics, logic and theoretical physics.
Cassirer engages with the most sophisticated and cutting-edge work
in fields ranging from ethnology to classics, egyptology and
assyriology to ethology, brain science and psychology to logic,
mathematics and theoretical physics. His command of philosophy,
literature, and the arts is superb. Echoing his work on Kant,
Cassirer begins The Philosophy of Symbolic Forms with the problem
posed by the meaning of being for philosophy since Plato. But
Cassirer also shows that this problem gains new significance with
Kant and with the development of modern culture. Cassirer weaves
his conception of the development of knowledge into a broadly
Kantian and German idealist dynamic-historical conception of
significance and of experience that refuses to accept a fundamental
opposition between literary, philosophical and scientific culture.
In consequence of his great vision grounded in careful reflection
and argument, Cassirer's systematic conception of the Copernican
cosmopolitan-cosmological revolution is still philosophically and
scientifically unmatched in contemporary philosophy on both sides
of the Atlantic and of the Pacific." Pierre Keller, Professor of
Philosophy, University of California, Riverside, USA. This new
translation makes Cassirer's seminal work available to a new
generation of scholars. Each volume includes a translator's
introduction by Steve G. Lofts, a foreword by Peter E. Gordon, a
glossary of key terms, and an index.
"The Philosophy of Symbolic Forms is one of the landmarks of
twentieth century philosophy. Drawing from the influential work of
Wilhelm Dilthey, it transformed neo-Kantianism into a new robust
philosophy of culture. The second volume, on Mythical Thinking,
analyzes the fundamental layers of perception and expression as
well as the articulations with religion and the dialectic with
other forms, essentially language and art. The intellectual breadth
of the volume is remarkable. It initiated the debate with Martin
Heidegger and prompted a long-lasting meditation by Hans
Blumenberg. We are only beginning to recognize its importance for
our understanding of the power of images in the construction of
aesthetics, the self, and the socio-political world. It initiated a
discussion within French sociology (Emile Durkheim, Marcel Mauss)
that ultimately resurfaced in Pierre Bourdieu, while today it is
considered as a resourceful path for cultural and critical theory
(Drucilla Cornell and Kenneth M. Panfilio). Finally, this volume
also offers solid grounds for a political critique of Nazism -
specifically: Alfred Rosenberg's Myth of the 20th Century and Adolf
Hitler's Mein Kampf - as well as the new emerging totalitarian
ideologies." Fabien Capeilleres, Professor of Philosophy, editor of
the French edition of Cassirer's Works. This new translation makes
Cassirer's seminal work available to a new generation of scholars.
Each volume includes a translator's introduction by Steve G. Lofts,
a foreword by Peter E. Gordon, a glossary of key terms, and an
index.
"The Philosophy of Symbolic Forms is a milestone in twentieth
century philosophy. Promoting a philosophical vision informed by
Kant, it incorporates the philosophical advances achieved in the
nineteenth century by German Idealism and Neo-Kantianism, whilst
acknowledging the contributions made by his contemporary
phenomenologists. It also encompasses empirical and historical
research on culture and the most contemporary work on myth,
linguistics and psychopathology. As such, it ranks in philosophical
importance along with other major works of the twentieth century,
such as Edmund Husserl's Logical Investigations, Martin Heidegger's
Being and Time, and Ludwig Wittgenstein's Tractatus
Logico-Philosophicus. In the first volume, Cassirer explores the
symbolic form of language. Already recognized by thinkers in the
tradition of German Idealism, such as Wilhelm von Humboldt,
language is the primary medium by which we interact with others and
form a common world. As Cassirer emphasizes in the famous Davos
Debate with Heidegger, 'there is one objective human world, in
which a bridge is built from individual to individual. That I find
in the primal phenomenon of language.' The famous trias Cassirer
discerns in the functioning of language - the functions of
expression (Ausdruck), presentation (Darstellung), and
signification (Bedeutung) - has become paradigmatic for accounts of
language, philosophical, linguistic, and anthropological alike."
Sebastian Luft, Professor of Philosophy, Marquette University, USA.
This new translation makes Cassirer's seminal work available to a
new generation of scholars. Each volume includes a translator's
introduction by Steve G. Lofts, a foreword by Peter E. Gordon, a
glossary of key terms, and an index.
Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not
used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad
quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are
images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to
keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the
original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain
imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve to be made
available for future generations to enjoy.
Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not
used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad
quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are
images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to
keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the
original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain
imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve to be made
available for future generations to enjoy.
Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not
used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad
quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are
images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to
keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the
original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain
imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve to be made
available for future generations to enjoy.
Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not
used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad
quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are
images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to
keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the
original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain
imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve to be made
available for future generations to enjoy.
Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not
used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad
quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are
images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to
keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the
original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain
imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve to be made
available for future generations to enjoy.
Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not
used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad
quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are
images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to
keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the
original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain
imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve to be made
available for future generations to enjoy.
Ernst Cassirer occupies a unique space in twentieth-century
philosophy. A great liberal humanist, his multi-faceted work spans
the history of philosophy, the philosophy of science, intellectual
history, aesthetics, epistemology, the study of language and myth,
and more. Cassirer's thought also anticipates the renewed interest
in the origins of analytic and continental philosophy in the
Twentieth Century and the divergent paths taken by the 'logicist'
and existential traditions, epitomised by his now legendary debate
in 1929 with the philosopher Martin Heidegger, over the question
"What is the Human Being?" The Philosophy of Symbolic Forms is
Cassirer's most important work. It was first published in German in
1923, the third and final volume appearing in 1929. In it Cassirer
presents a radical new philosophical worldview - at once rich,
creative and controversial - of human beings as fundamentally
"symbolic animals", placing signs and systems of expression between
themselves and the world. This major new translation of all three
volumes, the first for over fifty years, brings Cassirer's magnum
opus to a new generation of students and scholars. Taken together,
the three volumes of The Philosophy of Symbolic Forms are a vital
treatise on human beings as symbolic animals and a monumental
expression of neo-Kantian thought. Correcting important errors in
previous English editions, this translation reflects the
contributions of significant advances in Cassirer scholarship over
the last twenty to thirty years. Each volume includes a new
introduction and translator's notes by Steve G. Lofts, a foreword
by Peter E. Gordon, a glossary of key terms, and a thorough index.
"In his Phenomenology of Cognition, Cassirer provides a
comprehensive and systematic account of the dynamic process
involved in the whole of human culture as it progresses from the
world of myth and its feeling of social belonging to the highest
abstractions of mathematics, logic and theoretical physics.
Cassirer engages with the most sophisticated and cutting-edge work
in fields ranging from ethnology to classics, egyptology and
assyriology to ethology, brain science and psychology to logic,
mathematics and theoretical physics. His command of philosophy,
literature, and the arts is superb. Echoing his work on Kant,
Cassirer begins The Philosophy of Symbolic Forms with the problem
posed by the meaning of being for philosophy since Plato. But
Cassirer also shows that this problem gains new significance with
Kant and with the development of modern culture. Cassirer weaves
his conception of the development of knowledge into a broadly
Kantian and German idealist dynamic-historical conception of
significance and of experience that refuses to accept a fundamental
opposition between literary, philosophical and scientific culture.
In consequence of his great vision grounded in careful reflection
and argument, Cassirer's systematic conception of the Copernican
cosmopolitan-cosmological revolution is still philosophically and
scientifically unmatched in contemporary philosophy on both sides
of the Atlantic and of the Pacific." Pierre Keller, Professor of
Philosophy, University of California, Riverside, USA. This new
translation makes Cassirer's seminal work available to a new
generation of scholars. Each volume includes a translator's
introduction by Steve G. Lofts, a foreword by Peter E. Gordon, a
glossary of key terms, and an index.
In this classic work of intellectual history, Ernst Cassirer
provides both a cogent synthesis and a penetrating analysis of one
of history's greatest intellectual epochs: the Enlightenment.
Arguing that there was a common foundation beneath the diverse
strands of thought of this period, he shows how Enlightenment
philosophers drew upon the ideas of the preceding centuries even
while radically transforming them to fit the modern world. In
Cassirer's view, the Enlightenment liberated philosophy from the
realm of pure thought and restored it to its true place as an
active and creative force through which knowledge of the world is
achieved.
In a new foreword, Peter Gay considers "The Philosophy of the
Enlightenment" in the context in which it was written--Germany in
1932, on the precipice of the Nazi seizure of power and one of the
greatest assaults on the ideals of the Enlightenment. He also
argues that Cassirer's work remains a trenchant defense against
enemies of the Enlightenment in the twenty-first century.
Translated by James Gutmann, Paul Oskar Kristeller, and John Herman
Randall, Jr. Originally published in 1945. The Princeton Legacy
Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make
available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished
backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the
original texts of these important books while presenting them in
durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton
Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly
heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton
University Press since its founding in 1905.
One of the twentieth century’s greatest philosophers presents the
results of his lifetime study of man’s cultural achievements An
Essay on Man is an original synthesis of contemporary knowledge, a
unique interpretation of the intellectual crisis of our time, and a
brilliant vindication of man’s ability to resolve human problems
by the courageous use of his mind. In a new introduction Peter E.
Gordon situates the book among Cassirer’s greater body of work,
and looks at why his “hymn to humanity in an inhuman age” still
resonates with readers today. “The best-balanced and most
mature expression of [Cassirer’s] thought.”—Journal of
Philosophy “No reader of this book can fail to be struck
by the grandeur of its program or by the sensitive humanism of the
author.”—Ernest Nagel, The Humanist “A rare work of
philosophy and a rare work of art.”—Tomorrow
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