The philosophy of symbolic forms / Ernst Cassirer ; translated by S.G. Lofts.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Cassirer, Ernst, 1874-1945, author.

Standardized Title:

Philosophie der symbolischen Formen. English

Language:

English

German

Subjects (All):

Language and languages--Philosophy.

Language and languages.

Knowledge, Theory of.

Symbolism.

Mythology.

Physical Description:

volumes ; 25 cm

Place of Publication:

Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2021.

Contents:

Machine generated contents note: 1. The Matter [Materie] and Form of Cognition

2. Symbolic Cognition and its Significance for the Construction of the World of Objects

3. The "Immediacy" of Inner Experience: The Object of Psychology

4. Intuitive and Symbolic Cognition in Modern Metaphysics

pt. ONE THE EXPRESSIVE FUNCTION AND THE WORLD OF EXPRESSION

I. Subjective and Objective Analysis

II. The Expressive Phenomenon as the Basic Element of Perceptual Consciousness

III. The Expressive Function and the Mind-Body-Problem [Leib-Seelen-Problem]

pt. TWO THE PROBLEM OF REPRESENTATION [REPRASENTATION] AND THE CONSTRUCTION OF THE INTUITIVE WORLD

I. The Concept and the Problem of Representation [Reprtisentation]

II. Thing and Property

III. Space

IV. The Intuition of Time

V. Symbolic Pregnance

VI. On the Pathology of Symbolic Consciousness

1. The Problem of the Symbolic in the History of the Theory of Aphasia

2. The Alteration of the World of Perception in Symptoms of Aphasia

3. Toward a Pathology of Thing Perception

4. Space, Time, and Number

5. The Pathological Disorders of Action

pt. THREE THE FUNCTION OF SIGNIFICATION AND THE CONSTRUCTION OF SCIENTIFIC COGNITION

I. Toward a Theory of the Concept

1. The Whole of the "Natural World Concept"

2. Concept and Law: The Position of Concepts in Mathematical Logic: Class Concepts and Relation Concepts [Relationsbegriff]: The Concept as Propositional Function: Concept and Representation

II. Concept and Object

III. Language and Science: Thing Signs and Ordinal Signs

IV. The Object of Mathematics

1. The Formalist and Intuitionist Grounding of Mathematics

2. The Construction of Set Theory and the "Crisis in the Foundation" of Mathematics

3. The Position of the "Sign" in the Theory of Mathematics

4. The "Ideal Elements" [Elemente] and their Signification for the Construction of Mathematics

V. The Foundations of Natural-Scientific Cognition

1. Empirical and Constructive Manifolds

2. The Principle and Method of Physical Series Formation

3. "Symbol" and "Schema" in the System of Modern Physics.

Notes:

Translated from the German.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781138907133

1138907138

9781138907201

1138907200

9781138907249

1138907243

OCLC:

1083675695