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.

Works

(in German unless noted)

• Kants Leben und Lehre, Berlin: Bruno Cassirer, 1918; 1921.
  • Kant's Life and Thought, trans. James Haden, Yale University Press, 1983. (in English)

• 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.
  • "Form und Technik" [1930], pp 39-91.

• An Essay on Man: An Introduction to a Philosophy of Human Culture, New Haven, 1944. (in English)
  • Was ist der Mensch? Versuch einer Philosophie der menschlichen Kultur, 1960.

• More

Literature

• Carl H. Hamburg, Symbol and reality, studies in the philosophy of Ernst Cassirer, The Hague: Martinus Nijhoff, 1956. (in English)
• 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.
• Michael Friedman "Ernst Cassirer", Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, 2004f. (in English)
• 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. (in English). 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. (in English) [1]
• James Schmidt, "On Foucault’s Review of Cassirer’s Philosophy of the Enlightenment", Persistent Enlightenment blog, 2 July 2013. (in English)

Bibliography

• Bibliography

Links

• Cassirer at Wikipedia