The Philosophy of Symbolic Forms: Three Volume Set

ISBN-13: 9781138907256 / Angielski / Twarda / 2020 / 1254 str.

Ernst Cassirer

Opis

Ernst Cassirer occupies a unique space in Twentieth-century philosophy, and The Philosophy of Symbolic Forms is his most important work. This major new translation of all three volumes, the first for over fifty years, brings Cassirer's magnum opus to a new generation of students and scholars.

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'The three volumes of The Philosophy of Symbolic Forms focus on language, myth, and science respectively, offering fascinating, if necessarily fragmentary and speculative, accounts of how each develops in the direction of increasing freedom and universality… the basic insight of The Philosophy of Symbolic Forms is one that continues to inform the humanities today. The categories we use to understand the world aren’t a passive reflection of the way things really are; rather, we actively create systems of meaning that evolve over time.' - Adam Kirsch, New York Review of Books