Ernst Cassirer and the Autonomy of Language / Gregory S. Moss.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Moss, Gregory S., 1983- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Cassirer, Ernst, 1874-1945.

Cassirer, Ernst.

Language and languages--Philosophy.

Language and languages.

Symbolism.

Physical Description:

x, 263 pages ; 25 cm

Place of Publication:

Lanham, Maryland : Lexington Books, [2015]

Contents:

1 Hegelian Psycholinguistics 1

2 The Copy Theory of Language 17

3 Kant's Transcendental Turn 33

4 Humboldt's Philosophy of Language 53

5 Toward the Schematism: Hegel's Concrete Universal 59

6 The Concrete Universal: Symbolic Form 99

7 Mystical Alternatives: Heidegger and Wittgenstein 115

8 On the Way to Cultural Symbolism 155

9 The Unity of Culture: The Symbolic Function: Non-Human Communication 165

10 The A priori Synthetic Imagination 175

11 Symbolic Prägnanz 183

12 The Grammar of the Symbolic Function 189

13 The Logical Function of Language 199

14 Form as Movement: Language as Concrete Universal 215

15 Beyond Language: The Serial Form of Scientific Law 231

16 Language: The Vehicle of Self-Knowledge 243.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780739186220

0739186221

OCLC:

898908872