The Philosophy of Symbolic Forms: Volume 3: 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.
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Contents
Introduction | 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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