Ernst Cassirer : a "repetition" of modernity / S.G. Lofts ; foreword by John Michael Krois
- Author
- Lofts, Steve G., 1959-
- Published
- Albany : State University of New York Press, [2000]
- Copyright Date
- ©2000
- Physical Description
- 1 online resource (xiv, 262 pages).
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- Series
- Language Note
- English.
- Contents
- The "crisis" in the project of rationality -- The structure of the symbolic function as the function of structure -- Language: the "genesis" of signification and the Aufbau of the objective world -- Myth as the other of logos or the texture of the real: the presence of meaning as the meaning of presence -- Religion: the "logic of absurdity" and the intuition of the real ["real" is crossed out with an 'x'] -- Science: the writing of a Lingua Universalis -- Art: the "eye of spirit" and the "cloak of reality."
- Summary
- "This systematic introduction to Ernst Cassirer's philosophy of symbolic forms demonstrates how his approach transforms the project of modernity in accord with the limitations of the modern conception of rationality. At the same time, this book functions as an introduction to Cassirer's thought."--Jacket
- Subject(s)
- ISBN
- 0585362912 (electronic bk.)
9780585362915 (electronic bk.) - Bibliography Note
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 241-259) and index.
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