The Symbolic Construction of Reality
In 1933 eminent philosopher Ernst Cassirer (1874a1945) fled Nazi Germany for the United States. His fame in Europe having already been established through a public debate with Martin Heidegger in 1929, Cassirer would go on to become a noteworthy influence on American culture. His most important early writings focused on the symbol and symbolic interaction, exploring how human culturesafrom early myth-based ones to our own modern, scientifically oriented timeahave used symbols to mediate the basic forms of experience. Following this work, Cassirer extended his insights to encompass a broad spectrum of philosophical themes: from investigations into Western epistemological and scientific traditions to aesthetics and the philosophy of history to anthropology and political philosophy. Reflecting this diversity in Cassireras own work, The Symbolic Construction of Reality collects eleven essays by a wide range of contributors from different fields. Each essay analyzes a different aspect of his legacy, reassessing its significance for our contemporary world and bringing much-needed attention to this seminal thinker.aCassirer was rather a distinguished reflective scholar than a great speculative philosopher.a B. Blanshard, aReview of An Essay on Man, a Philosophical Review 54 (1945): 509a510. What B. Blanshard, a British philosopher teaching at Yale, anbsp;...
| Title | : | The Symbolic Construction of Reality |
| Author | : | Jeffrey Andrew Barash |
| Publisher | : | University of Chicago Press - 2009-05-15 |
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