Umfang:
1 Online-Ressource (xxx, 288 pages)
Ausgabe:
Online-Ausg.
ISBN:
0300103298
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0300156839
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9780300103298
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9780300156836
Inhalt:
Cassirer's conception of culture & theory of symbolism anticipated much of later cultural theory. The essays in this volume explore aspects of his thinking & demonstrate the influence that it had on later scholarship
Inhalt:
pt. 1. Culture as a philosophical concept. The variety of symbolic world and the unity of mind / Oswald Schwemmer ; Cassirer's concept of a philosophy of human culture / Donald Philip Verene ; The modern concept of culture as indicator of a metaphysical problem / Ernst Wolfgang Orth ; Cassirer's symbolic theory of culture and the historicization of philosophy / Louis Dupré. -- pt. 2. Problems in the philosophical interpretation of culture. "Art" and "Science" in The philosophy of symbolic forms / Michael Holquist ; The subject of culture / Steve Lofts ; Styles of change: Ernst Cassirer's philosophical writing / Barbara Naumann. -- pt. 3. Comparative studies. Bakhtin and Cassirer: the philosophical origins of carnival messianism / Brian Poole ; From culture to politics: the "Aufhebung" of ethics in Ernst Cassirer's political philosophy in comparison with the "Political theology" of Ernst Kantorowicz / Enno Rudolph ; Speaking of symbols: affinities between Cassirer's and Jung's theories of language / Paul Bishop ; "Eine zarte Differenz": Cassirer on Goethe on the symbol / R.H. Stephenson ; Goethe as model for cultural values: Ernst Cassirer's Essay on Thomas Mann's Lotte in Weimar / Cyrus Hamlin. -- pt. 4. Cassirer's philosophical outlook. The missing core of Cassirer's philosophy: Homo Faber in thin air / Gideon Freudenthal ; The Davos disputation and twentieth-century philosophy / Michael Friedman ; Why did Cassirer and Heidegger not debate in Davos? / John Michael Krois. -- Appendix: How the Cassirer papers came to Yale / Vincent Giroud
Anmerkung:
Includes bibliographical references and index
Weitere Ausg.:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Symbolic forms and cultural studies
Sprache:
Englisch
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Mehr zum Autor:
Krois, John Michael 1943-2010
Mehr zum Autor:
Hamlin, Cyrus 1936-2011
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