The Philosophy of Symbolic Forms, Volume 1: Language

ISBN-13: 9781138907133 / Angielski / Twarda / 2020 / 314 str.

Ernst Cassirer

Opis

The Philosophy of Symbolic Forms is Cassirer's most important work. This major new translation brings his magnum opus to a new generation of students and scholars. Volume 1: Language is a fascinating examination of arguably the most fundamental of these systems of expression: human language.

Recenzje

'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

Spis treści

Foreword Peter E. Gordon  Translator’s Preface Steve G. Lofts  Translator’s Introduction: The Question Concerning the Human – Life, Form, and Freedom: On the Way to an Open Cosmopolitanism Steve G. Lofts  Translator’s Acknowledgements Steve G. Lofts  Preface  Introduction and the Framing of the Problem Volume 1: Toward a Phenomenology of the Linguistic Form 1. The Problem of Language in the History of Philosophy  2. Language in the Phase of Sensible Expression  3. Language in the Phase of Intuitive Expression  4. Language as the Expression of Conceptual Thinking: The Form of Linguistic Concept and Class  Formation  5. Language and the Expression of the Pure Forms of Relation: The Sphere of Judgment and the Concepts of Relation [Relation].  Glossary of German Terms  Index