Ernst Cassirer

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Ernst Cassirer (1874–1945) 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.

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(in German unless noted)

  • Sprache und Mythos – Ein Beitrag zum Problem der Götternamen, 1925; repr. in Wesen und Wirkung des Symbolbegriffs, Darmstadt: Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft WBG, 1994, pp 71-158.
    • Language and Myth, trans. Susanne K. Langer, Harper and Brother, 1946; New York: Dover Publications, 1953. (in English)
  • Symbol, Technik, Sprache. Aufsätze aus den Jahren 1927–1933, eds. Ernst Wolfgang Orth and John Michael Krois, Hamburg: Meiner, 1985. Contents.
  • The Warburg Years (1919-1933): Essays on Language, Art, Myth, and Technology, trans. & intro. S. G. Lofts with A. Calcagno, Yale University Press, 2013, 424 pp. [1]

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