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Cassirer was one of the leading 20th-century advocates of philosophical idealism. His most famous work is the Philosophy of Symbolic Forms (1923–1929).
- Ernst Cassirer
- 1946
Jun 30, 2004 · Ernst Cassirer occupies a unique place in twentieth-century philosophy. His work pays equal attention to foundational and epistemological issues in the philosophy of mathematics and natural science and to aesthetics, the philosophy of history, and other issues in the “cultural sciences” broadly conceived. More than any other German ...
Apr 9, 2024 · Ernst Cassirer (born July 28, 1874, Breslau, Silesia, Ger. [now Wrocław, Pol.]—died April 13, 1945, New York, N.Y., U.S.) was a German Jewish philosopher, educator, and prolific writer, remembered for his interpretation and analysis of cultural values.
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A comprehensive overview of the life and work of Ernst Cassirer, the most prominent Neo-Kantian philosopher of the twentieth century. Learn about his philosophy of symbolic forms, his cultural anthropology, his histories of science and ideas, and his role in the Davos Conference.
May 29, 2018 · Learn about Ernst Cassirer, a German philosopher of culture who studied the symbolic forms of human experience. Explore his major works on the history of philosophy, the philosophy of symbolic forms, and the relation of myth and religion.
A paper that reviews Cassirer’s work as historian of philosophy and history of science, and his contribution to the philosophy of symbolic forms. It explores his intellectual cooperation with other scholars, his approach to the problem of knowledge in modern times, and his dynamic conception of the a priori conditions of scientific experience.
Jan 16, 2024 · Ernst Cassirer was appointed to the University of Hamburg in 1919, a few months after its founding (Levine, 2013, pp. 72–92; Vogel, 1997). His arrival in the glorious Hanseatic town in that dark year for Germany plunged into the chaos of the immediate post-War period represents an important turning point in Cassirer's intellectual biography.
