The Philosophy of Symbolic Forms, Volume 3: Phenomenology of Cognition

ISBN-13: 9781138907249 / Angielski / Twarda / 2020 / 606 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 3: The Phenomenology of Knowledge is an exploration of epistemology, perception and consciousness across the human sciences

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: A Phenomenology of Symbolic Creative Cognition: the Unfolding of the Symbolic Function and the Construction of a Pure Theory of the Symbolic Steve G. Lofts  Translator’s Acknowledgements Steve G. Lofts.  Preface  Introduction  Part 1: The Expressive Function and the World of Expression  1. Subjective and Objective Analysis  2. The Expressive Phenomenon as the Basic Element of Perceptual Consciousness  3. The Expressive Function and the Mind-Body-Problem [Leib-Seelen-Problem]  Part 2: The Problem of Representation [Repräsentation] and the Construction of the Intuitive World  1. The Concept and the Problem of Representation [Repräsentation]  2. Thing and Property  3. Space  4. The Intuition of Time  5. Symbolic Pregnance  6. On the Pathology of Symbolic Consciousness  Part 3: The Function of Signification and the Construction of Scientific Cognition  1. Toward a Theory of the Concept  2. Concept and Object  3. Language and Science: Thing Signs and Ordinal Signs  4. The Object of Mathematics  5. The Foundations of Natural-Scientific Cognition  Appendix: "'Spirit' and 'Life' in Contemporary Philosophy" (1930).  Glossary of German Terms  Index