The philosophy of symbolic forms. (2020)
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- Book
- Title:
- The philosophy of symbolic forms. (2020)
- Main Title:
- The philosophy of symbolic forms
- Further Information:
- Note: Ernst Cassirer.
- Authors:
- Cassirer, Ernst, 1874-1945
- Contents:
- Volume 1: Language Foreword Peter E. Gordon Translator’s Preface Steve G. Lofts Translator’s Introduction: The Question Concerning the Human – Life, Form, and Freedom: On the Way to an Open Cosmopolitanism Steve G. Lofts Translator’s Acknowledgements Steve G. Lofts Preface Introduction and the Framing of the Problem 1. The Problem of Language in the History of Philosophy 2. Language in the Phase of Sensible Expression 3. Language in the Phase of Intuitive Expression 4. Language as the Expression of Conceptual Thinking – The Form of the Linguistic Formation of Concept and Class 5. Language and the Expression of the Pure Forms of Relation – The Sphere of Judgment and the Concepts of Relation [Relation]. Glossary of Terms Index of Proper Names General Index. Volume 2: Mythical Thinking Foreword Peter E. Gordon Translator’s Preface Steve G. Lofts Translator’s Introduction: A Transcendental Critique of Mythical-Religious Consciousness – Identity Thinking, the Natural Attitude, and an Immanence in the Sacred Sense of Life Steve G. Lofts Translator’s Acknowledgements Steve G. Lofts. Preface Introduction: The Problem of A "Philosophy of Mythology" Part 1: Myth as Thought-Form 1. The Character and Basic Tendency of Mythical Object Consciousness 2. The Individual Categories of Mythical Thinking Part 2: Myth as Form of Intuition – The Construction and Organization of the Spatial-Temporal World in Mythical Consciousness 1. The Basic Opposition 2. The Basic Features of a Morphology ofVolume 1: Language Foreword Peter E. Gordon Translator’s Preface Steve G. Lofts Translator’s Introduction: The Question Concerning the Human – Life, Form, and Freedom: On the Way to an Open Cosmopolitanism Steve G. Lofts Translator’s Acknowledgements Steve G. Lofts Preface Introduction and the Framing of the Problem 1. The Problem of Language in the History of Philosophy 2. Language in the Phase of Sensible Expression 3. Language in the Phase of Intuitive Expression 4. Language as the Expression of Conceptual Thinking – The Form of the Linguistic Formation of Concept and Class 5. Language and the Expression of the Pure Forms of Relation – The Sphere of Judgment and the Concepts of Relation [Relation]. Glossary of Terms Index of Proper Names General Index. Volume 2: Mythical Thinking Foreword Peter E. Gordon Translator’s Preface Steve G. Lofts Translator’s Introduction: A Transcendental Critique of Mythical-Religious Consciousness – Identity Thinking, the Natural Attitude, and an Immanence in the Sacred Sense of Life Steve G. Lofts Translator’s Acknowledgements Steve G. Lofts. Preface Introduction: The Problem of A "Philosophy of Mythology" Part 1: Myth as Thought-Form 1. The Character and Basic Tendency of Mythical Object Consciousness 2. The Individual Categories of Mythical Thinking Part 2: Myth as Form of Intuition – The Construction and Organization of the Spatial-Temporal World in Mythical Consciousness 1. The Basic Opposition 2. The Basic Features of a Morphology of Myth – Space, Time, and Number Part 3: Myth as Life-Form – The Discovery and Determination of Subjective Reality in Mythical Consciousness 1. The I and the Soul 2. The Forming Emergence of the Feeling of Self from the Mythical Feeling of Unity and Life 3. Cult and Sacrifice Part 4: The Dialectic of Mythical Consciousness. Glossary General Index Index of Proper Names. Volume 3: Phenomenology of Cognition Foreword Peter E. Gordon Translator’s Preface Steve G. Lofts Translator’s Introduction: A Phenomenology of Symbolic Creative Cognition – the Unfolding of the Symbolic Function and the Construction of a Pure Theory of the Symbolic Steve G. Lofts Translator’s Acknowledgements Steve G. Lofts. Preface Introduction Part 1: The Expressive Function and the World of Expression 1. Subjective and Objective Analysis 2. The Expressive Phenomenon as the Basic Element of Perceptual Consciousness 3. The Expressive Function and the Mind-Body-Problem Part 2: The Problem of Representation [Repräsentation] and the Construction of the Intuitive World 1. The Concept and the Problem of Representation [Repräsentation] 2. Thing and Property 3. Space 4. The Intuition of Time 5. Symbolic Pregnance 6. Toward the Pathology of Symbolic Consciousness Part 3: The Function of Signification and the Construction of Scientific Cognition 1. Toward a Theory of the Concept 2. Concept and Object 3. Language and Science – Thing Signs and Ordinal Signs 4. The Object of Mathematics 5. The Foundations of Natural Scientific Cognition Appendix: "Spirit" and "Life" in Contemporary Philosophy (1930). Glossary General Index Index of Proper Names. … (more)
- Edition:
- 1st
- Publisher Details:
- London : Routledge
- Publication Date:
- 2020
- Extent:
- 1 online resource
- Subjects:
- 193
Language and languages -- Philosophy
Knowledge, Theory of
Symbolism - Languages:
- English
- ISBNs:
- 9781000438949
- Related ISBNs:
- 9781000398106
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