Symbolic Forms and Cultural Studies / Harry T. Hunt.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hunt, Harry T., Author.

Contributor:

Hamlin, Cyrus.

Krois, John Michael.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Cassirer, Ernst, 1874-1945.

Cassirer, Ernst.

Culture--Philosophy--History--20th century.

Culture.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (318 p.)

Place of Publication:

New Haven, CT : Yale University Press, [2004]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Cassirer thought of culture anthropologically as the entire complex of human modes of meaning and existence: it encompassed science, technology, language, and social life in addition to art, religion, and philosophy. This conception of culture and Cassirer's theory of symbolism anticipated much of later cultural theory. In this collection of essays, eminent Cassirer scholars examine the many different aspects of his thinking on this subject and demonstrate how pioneering and important it is to cultural studies.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Preface

Introduction

Abbreviations of Works by Ernst Cassirer

1. The Variety of Symbolic Worlds and the Unity of Mind

2. Cassirer's Concept of a Philosophy of Human Culture

3. The Modern Concept of Culture as Indicator of a Metaphysical Problem

4. Cassirer's Symbolic Theory of Culture and the Historicization of Philosophy

5. ''Art'' and ''Science'' in The Philosophy of Symbolic Forms

6. The Subject of Culture

7. Styles of Change: Ernst Cassirer's Philosophical Writing

8. Bakhtin and Cassirer: The Philosophical Origins of Carnival Messianism

9. From Culture to Politics: The ''Aufhebung'' of Ethics in Ernst Cassirer's Political Philosophy in Comparison with the ''Political Theology'' of Ernst Kantorowicz

10. Speaking of Symbols: Affinities between Cassirer's and Jung's Theories of Language

11. ''Eine zarte Differenz'': Cassirer on Goethe on the Symbol

12. Goethe as Model for Cultural Values: Ernst Cassirer's Essay on Thomas Mann's Lotte in Weimar

13. The Missing Core of Cassirer's Philosophy: Homo Faber in Thin Air

14. The Davos Disputation and Twentieth-Century Philosophy

15. Why Did Cassirer and Heidegger Not Debate in Davos?

Appendix: How the Cassirer Papers to Yale

List of Contributors

Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 24. Apr 2020)

ISBN:

9780300156836

0300156839

OCLC:

953660886