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.

Literature

By Cassirer
  • Symbol, Technik, Sprache. Aufsätze aus den Jahren 1927–1933, Hamburg: Felix Meiner, 1985. (in German). Contents.
On Cassirer

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