| The Philosophy of Symbolic Forms: Volume 4: The Metaphysics of Symbolic Forms Revised Edition Contributor(s): Cassirer, Ernst (Author), Verene, Donald Phillip (Editor), Krois, John Michael (Editor) |
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ISBN: 0300074336 ISBN-13: 9780300074338 Publisher: Yale University Press OUR PRICE: $37.62 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: January 1998 Annotation: This fourth volume of The Philosophy of Symbolic Forms, available now for the first time in English, fittingly concludes Ernst Cassirer's magnum opus. At his death in 1945, the great twentieth-century philosopher left manuscripts for this final volume. In these writings Cassirer grounds his conception of symbolic forms on a particular notion of human nature and discusses Basis Phenomena. "The book will not disappoint those who have waited so long for it". -- Library Journal "This is a remarkable translation -- faithful to Cassirer's text and doing justice to his meaning. An impressive performance". -- Raymond Klibansky, McGill University and University of Heidelberg |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Philosophy | Metaphysics - Philosophy | History & Surveys - Modern |
| Dewey: 193.9 |
| Series: Philosophy of Symbolic Forms |
| Physical Information: 0.76" H x 5.04" W x 7.86" (0.68 lbs) 264 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: At his death in 1945, the influential German philosopher Ernst Cassirer left manuscripts for the fourth and final volume of his magnum opus, The Philosophy of Symbolic Forms. John Michael Krois and Donald Phillip Verene have edited these writings and translated them into English for the first time, bringing to completion Cassirer's major treatment of the concept of symbolic form. Ernst Cassirer believed that all the forms of representation that human beings use--language, myth, art, religion, history, science--are symbolic, and the concept of symbolic forms was the basis of his thinking on these subjects. In this volume, which contains one text written in 1928 and another in about 1940, Cassirer presents the metaphysics that is implicit in his epistemology and phenomenology of culture. The earlier text grounds the philosopher's conception of symbolic forms on a notion of human nature that makes a general distinction between Geist (mind) and life. In the later text, he discusses Basis Phenomena, an original concept not mentioned in any of his previous works, and he compares his own viewpoint with those of other modern philosophers, notably Bergson and Heidegger. |
