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Ernst Cassirer

july 28, 1874 - April 131945

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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  • Cover of: Philosophie der symbolischen Formen

    First published in 1923 32 editions in 2 languages — 4 previewable Cover of edition philosophiedersy0000cass Cover of edition philosophyofsymb0003cass Cover of edition philosophyofsymb00cass
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  • Cover of: An essay on man: an introduction to the philosophy of human culture

    First published in 1944 19 editions in 1 language — 3 previewable Cover of edition essayonmanintrod00cass Cover of edition essayonmanintrod00cass_243
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  • Cover of: The philosophy of the enlightenment

    First published in 1932 14 editions in 2 languages — 3 previewable Cover of edition philosophyofenli00cass Cover of edition philosophyofenl00cass
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  • Cover of: The individual and the cosmos in Renaissance philosophy.

    First published in 1927 13 editions in 2 languages — 3 previewable Cover of edition individualcosmos0000cass Cover of edition individualcosmos00cass_705
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  • Cover of: The myth of the state

    First published in 1946 11 editions in 2 languages — 2 previewable Cover of edition mythstate00cass
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  • Cover of: Rousseau, Kant, Goethe: two essays

    First published in 1945 10 editions in 3 languages — 1 previewable
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  • Cover of: Substanzbegriff und Funktionsbegriff: Untersuchungen über die Grundfragen der Erkenntniskritik.

    First published in 1910 10 editions in 2 languages — 3 previewable Cover of edition substanceandfunc00cassuoft Cover of edition substancefunctio00cass
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  • Cover of: Kant's life and thought

    First published in 1918 10 editions in 3 languages — 3 previewable Cover of edition kantslifethought0000cass Cover of edition kantslebenundleh0000cass
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  • Cover of: Freiheit und Form: Studien zur deutschen Geistesgeschichte.

    First published in 1916 8 editions in 1 language — 2 previewable Cover of edition freiheitundforms0000cass_i4u1
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  • Cover of: The Renaissance philosophy of man

    First published in 1948 8 editions in 1 language — 1 previewable
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  • Cover of: The question of Jean-Jacques Rousseau

    First published in 1954 8 editions in 2 languages — 3 previewable Cover of edition questionofjeanja0000cass Cover of edition questionofjeanja0000cass_g4r0
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  • Cover of: Descartes: Lehre, Persönlichkeit, Wirkung

    First published in 1939 7 editions in 2 languages
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  • Cover of: Language and myth.

    First published in 1946 7 editions in 1 language — 2 previewable Cover of edition languagemyth00cass_874
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  • Cover of: Das Erkenntnisproblem in der Philosophie und Wissenschaft der neueren Zeit, Bd. 1

    First published in 1906 6 editions in 1 language — 2 previewable Cover of edition daserkenntnispr01cassgoog
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  • Cover of: Idee und gestalt.: Goethe/Schiller/Hölderlin/Kleist. Fünf aufsätze.

    First published in 1921 6 editions in 1 language — 1 previewable
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  • Cover of: Leibniz' System in seinen wissenschaftlichen Grundlagen

    First published in 1902 6 editions in 1 language — 1 previewable
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  • Cover of: The problem of knowledge: philosophy, science, and history since Hegel

    First published in 1950 6 editions in 1 language — 1 previewable
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  • Cover of: Language and myth / by Ernst Cassirer ; translated by Susanne K. Langer.

    First published in 1925 5 editions in 2 languages
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  • Cover of: The Platonic renaissance in England.: Translated by James P. Pettegrove.

    First published in 1953 5 editions in 1 language — 1 previewable
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  • Cover of: La philosophie des Lumières

    First published in 1966 4 editions in 1 language
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Subjects
Philosophy, Theory of Knowledge, Symbolism, Language and languages, Mythology, Civilization, History, Philosophie, Modern Philosophy, Connaissance, Théorie de la, Relativity (Physics), Renaissance Philosophy, The State, Human beings, Humanities, Knowledge, theory of, Philosophical anthropology, Physics, Political science, Substance (Philosophy), Causality (Physics), Cosmology, Enlightenment, Free will and determinism, German Philosophy
Places
England, Germany, Itália
People
Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1712-1778), Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749-1832), Immanuel Kant (1724-1804), Ernst Cassirer (1874-1945), Heinrich von Kleist (1777-1811), René Descartes (1596-1650), Friedrich Schiller (1759-1805), Christina Queen of Sweden (1626-1689), Friedrich Hölderlin (1770-1843), Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Freiherr von (1646-1716), Nicholas of Cusa, Cardinal (1401-1464), Pierre Corneille (1606-1684), Thomas Thorild (1759-1808), Aby Warburg (1866-1929), Axel Hägerström (1868-1939), Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz (1646-1716), Günter Braun, Jahann Wolfgang Von Goethe (1749-1832), Johanna Braun, Plato, Thomas Mann (1875-1955), ernst cassirer
Time
18th century, 19th century, 20th century, 17th century

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