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Ernst Cassirer

Ernst Cassirer was a German philosopher. Trained within the Neo-Kantian Marburg School, he initially followed his mentor Hermann Cohen in attempting to supply an idealistic philosophy of science; after Cohen's death, he developed a theory of symbolism, and used it to expand phenomenology of knowledge into a more general philosophy of culture. He is one of the leading 20th century advocates of philosophical idealism.

At Hamburg Cassirer discovered the Library of the Cultural Sciences founded by Aby Warburg. Warburg was an art historian who was particularly interested in ritual and myth as sources of surviving forms of emotional expression. In Philosophy of Symbolic Forms (1923–1929) Cassirer argues that man (as he put it in his more popular 1944 book Essay on Man) is a "symbolic animal". Whereas animals perceive their world by instincts and direct sensory perception, humans create a universe of symbolic meanings. Cassirer is particularly interested in natural language and myth. He argues that science and mathematics developed from natural language, and religion and art from myth.

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German philosopher (1874–1945)

Born july 28, 1874
Died April 131945

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  • Cover of: Die Begriffsform im mythischen Denken.

    First published in 1922 — 2 editions
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    First published in 1932 — 2 editions
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    First published in 1930 — 1 edition
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  • Cover of: Trois essais sur le symbolique

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  • Cover of: Versuch uber den Menschen: Einfuhrung in eine Philosophie der Kultur (Philosophische Bibliothek)

    First published in 1996 — 1 edition
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  • Cover of: Vorlesungen und studien zur philosophischen Anthropologie

    First published in 2005 — 1 edition
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    First published in 1960 — 1 edition
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  • Cover of: Was ist der Mensch? Versuch einer Philosophie der menschlichen Kultur.

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  • Cover of: Ziele und Wege der Wirklichkeitserkenntnis

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  • Cover of: Substance and function and Einstein's theory of reltivity.

    First published in 1953 — 1 edition
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  • Cover of: Symbol, Technik, Sprache: Aufsätze aus den Jahren 1927-1933

    First published in 1985 — 1 edition
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  • Cover of: Thomas Manns Goethe-Bild: Eine Studie über Lotte in Weimar

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  • Cover of: Thorilds Stellung in der Geistesgeschichte des achtzehnten Jahrhunderts

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  • Cover of: La Philosophie des formes symboliques, tome 2 : La Pensée mythique

    First published in 1972 — 1 edition
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German philosopher (1874–1945)

Born july 28, 1874
Died April 131945

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Philosophy, Theory of Knowledge, Symbolism, Language and languages, Mythology, Civilization, History, Philosophie, Modern Philosophy, Connaissance, Théorie de la, Relativity (Physics), Renaissance Philosophy, Philosophical anthropology, Physics, The State, German Philosophy, Human beings, Humanities, Knowledge, theory of, Political science, Substance (Philosophy), Causality (Physics), Cosmology, Enlightenment, Free will and determinism

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England, Germany, Itália, Middle East

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Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1712-1778), Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749-1832), Immanuel Kant (1724-1804), Ernst Cassirer (1874-1945), Heinrich von Kleist (1777-1811), René Descartes (1596-1650), Friedrich Schiller (1759-1805), Christina Queen of Sweden (1626-1689), Friedrich Hölderlin (1770-1843), Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Freiherr von (1646-1716), Nicholas of Cusa, Cardinal (1401-1464), Pierre Corneille (1606-1684), Thomas Thorild (1759-1808), Aby Warburg (1866-1929), Axel Hägerström (1868-1939), Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz (1646-1716), Günter Braun, Jahann Wolfgang Von Goethe (1749-1832), Johanna Braun, John Chrysostom Saint (-407), Plato, Thomas Mann (1875-1955), ernst cassirer

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18th century, 19th century, 20th century, 17th century

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January 13, 2025 Edited by raybb Edited without comment.
September 27, 2020 Edited by MARC Bot add ISNI
March 31, 2017 Edited by MARC Bot add VIAF and wikidata ID
July 17, 2015 Edited by vijay varadharaj About the author
April 1, 2008 Created by an anonymous user initial import