The Philosophy of Symbolic Forms: The phenomenology of knowledgeThe Symbolic Forms has long been considered the greatest of Cassirer's works. Into it he poured all the resources of his vast learning about language and myth, religion, art, and science--the various creative symbolizing activities and constructions through which man has expressed himself and given intelligible objective form to this experience. "These three volumes alone (apart from Cassirer's other papers and books) make an outstanding contribution to epistemology and to the human power of abstraction. It is rather as if 'The Golden Bough' had been written in philosophical rather than in historical terms."--F.I.G. Rawlins, Nature |
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Contents
Introduction I | 1 |
Subjective and Objective Analysis | 45 |
The Phenomenon of Expression as the Basic Factor | 58 |
The Expressive Function and the Problem of Body | 92 |
The Concept and Problem of Representation | 107 |
Thing and Attribute | 118 |
Space | 142 |
The Intuition of Time | 162 |
Toward a Pathology of the Symbolic Consciousness | 205 |
Toward a Theory of the Concept | 281 |
Concept and Object | 315 |
Language and Science Thing Signs and Ordinal Signs | 328 |
The Object of Mathematics | 357 |
Crisis of Mathematics | 366 |
The Foundations of Scientific Knowledge | 406 |
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| Title | The Philosophy of Symbolic Forms: The phenomenology of knowledge Philosophy of Symbolic Forms, the Phenomenology of Knowledge Series Volume 3 of The Philosophy of Symbolic Forms, ארנסט קסירר The Philosophy of Symbolic Forms: Language. Volume One, Ernst Cassirer Volumes 146-148 of Yale paperbound |
| Author | Ernst Cassirer |
| Translated by | Ralph Manheim |
| Contributor | Charles William Hendel |
| Edition | reprint |
| Publisher | Yale University Press, 1953 |
| ISBN | 0300000391, 9780300000399 |
| Length | 501 pages |
| Subjects | › Philosophy / Logic |
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