Ernst Cassirer

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.

Literature

By Cassirer

• Symbol, Technik, Sprache. Aufsätze aus den Jahren 1927–1933, ed. Ernst Wolfgang Orth and John Michael Krois, Hamburg: Meiner, 1985. (in German). Contents.
  • "Form und Technik", 1930, pp 39-91.

On Cassirer

• Nils Röller, Medientheorie im epistemischen Übergang: Hermann Weyls Philosophie der Mathematik und Naturwissenschaft und Ernst Cassirers Philosophie der symbolischen Formen im Wechselverhältnis, Bauhaus-Universität Weimar, 2000. Dissertation. (in German)
• Aud Sissel Hoel, Ingvild Folkvord (eds.), Form og teknikk – utvalgte tekster, Oslo: Cappelen, 2006. (in Norwegian). Related seminar.
  • Ernst Cassirer on Form and Technology, Palgrave Macmillan, 2012. Introduction. Review. The book consists of the first translation of Cassirer's "Form und Technik" to English, followed by ten critical essays that explore its current relevance. Contributions from John Michael Krois, Aud Sissel Hoel, Frederik Stjernfelt, Hans Ruin, Jean Lassègue, Ingvild Folkvord, Marion Lauschke, Frederik Tygstrup & Isak Winkel Holm, Mats Rosengren, and Dennis M. Weiss.
• E. Jolly, "Mythe et technique. Autour de Cassirer", Meta 2:1 (2010), pp 155-177. (in French)
• Gregory B. Moynahan, Ernst Cassirer and the Critical Science of Germany, 1899–1919, Anthem Press, 2013, 278 pp. [1]
• Bibliography

External links

• Cassirer at Wikipedia