Symbolic Forms and Cultural Studies: Ernst Cassirer's Theory of Culture

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Cyrus Hamlin, John Michael Krois
Yale University Press, 01.01.2004 - 288 Seiten

Cassirer thought of culture anthropologically as the entire complex of human modes of meaning and existence: it encompassed science, technology, language, and social life in addition to art, religion, and philosophy. This conception of culture and Cassirer’s theory of symbolism anticipated much of later cultural theory. In this collection of essays, eminent Cassirer scholars examine the many different aspects of his thinking on this subject and demonstrate how pioneering and important it is to cultural studies.

 

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Problems in the Philosophical Interpretation of Culture
47
Comparative Studies
97
Cassirers Philosophical Outlook
201
How the Cassirer Papers Came to Yale Vincent Giroud
263
List of Contributors
271
Index
274
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Cyrus Hamlin is professor of comparative literature and German and the director of graduate studies in the department of comparative literature at Yale University. John Michael Krois teaches philosophy at the Humboldt-Unïversität zu Berlin.

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