˜Theœ Warburg years (1919 - 1933) essays on language, art, myth, and technology

Trans. by S. G. Lofts and A. Calcagno Jewish German philosopher Ernst Cassirer was a leading proponent of the Marburg school of neo-Kantianism. The essays in this volume provide a window into Cassirer’s discovery of the symbolic nature of human existence—that our entire emotional and intellectual life is configured and formed through the originary expressive power of word and image, that it is in and through the symbolic cultural systems of language, art, myth, religion, science, and technology that human life realizes itself and attains not only its form, its visibility, but also its reality. Thought and being are set in opposition and united in genuine correspondence by the symbolic strife between them that Cassirer calls __Auseinandersetzung,__ which determines the ethical relationship of the self to the other. "Jewish German philosopher Ernst Cassirer was a leading proponent of the Marburg school of neo-Kantianism. The essays in this volume provide a window into Cassirer's discovery of the symbolic nature of human existence, that our entire emotional and intellectual life is configured and formed through the originary expressive power of word and image, that it is in and through the symbolic cultural systems of language, art, myth, religion, science, and technology that human life realizes itself and attains not only its form, its visibility, but also its reality. Thought and being are set in opposition and united in genuine correspondence by the symbolic strife between them that Cassirer calls Auseinandersetzung, which determines the ethical relationship of the self to the other"--Publisher's description CONTENTS 7 TRANSLATORS’ INTRODUCTION 9 The Form of the Concept in Mythical Thinking (1922) 35 The Concept of Symbolic Form in the Construction of the Human Sciences (1923) 106 The Kantian Elements in Wilhelm von Humboldt’s Philosophy of Language (1923) 135 Language and Myth: A Contribution to the Problem of the Names of the Gods (1924) 164 Eidos and Eidolon: The Problem of Beauty and Art in the Dialogues of Plato (1924) 248 The Meaning of the Problem of Language for the Emergence of Modern Philosophy (1927) 278 The Problem of the Symbol and Its Place in the System of Philosophy (1927) 288 Form and Technology (1930) 306 Mythic, Aesthetic, and Theoretical Space (1931) 351 Language and the Construction of the World of Objects (1932) 368 GLOSSARY OF GERMAN TERMS 397 INDEX 411 Includes essays that provide a window into author's discovery of the symbolic nature of human existence - the fact that our entire emotional and intellectual life is configured and formed through the originary expressive power of word and image.

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