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The Genesis of the Symbolic : On the Beginnings of Ernst Cassirer's Philosophy of Culture / Arno Schubbach.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: New Studies in the History and Historiography of Philosophy ; 7Publisher: Berlin ; Boston : De Gruyter, [2021]Description: 1 online resource (VIII, 404 p.)Content type:
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  • 9783110607024
  • 9783110607758
  • 9783110623635
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 306.092 23
LOC classification:
  • B3216.C34 S358313 2022
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  • online - DeGruyter
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  • Issued also in print.
Contents:
Frontmatter -- Contents -- List of Abbreviations -- Introduction -- The Beginnings of a Work -- The Empirical Transformation of the Transcendental -- The Genesis of the Symbolic and Cassirer’s Engagement with the Cultural Sciences -- Concluding Remarks -- Appendix -- Bibliography -- Index of Names -- Index of Subjects
Summary: Ernst Cassirer’s philosophy of culture has been much discussed in recent years. However, it remains unclear how it evolved from his older theory of knowledge. This study deals with this question on the basis of Cassirer’s ‘disposition’ of a ‘philosophy of the symbolic’, reconstructed here for the first time. This text shows that the ‘symbolic’ refers to culture as a whole and to its inherent diversity. Therefore, ‘the symbolic’ includes the relationship between the general transcendental conditions of culture and its empirical specificities in language and languages, art and the arts, myth and myths, science and disciplines. Cassirer does not comprehend this empirical and specific reality of symbolization depending on pre-existing transcendental conditions. Instead, he proceeds from the empirical diversity of the symbolisations and reflects on their simultaneously general and specific conditions. Thus, Cassirer embarks on a path that he finds paved in Kant’s "Critique of Judgement": He consequently defines ‘the symbolic’ as the horizon for a reflective approach based on empirical findings – and not as the foundation of a systematic derivation of the diversity of culture in the style of the idealistic tradition.
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- List of Abbreviations -- Introduction -- The Beginnings of a Work -- The Empirical Transformation of the Transcendental -- The Genesis of the Symbolic and Cassirer’s Engagement with the Cultural Sciences -- Concluding Remarks -- Appendix -- Bibliography -- Index of Names -- Index of Subjects

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Ernst Cassirer’s philosophy of culture has been much discussed in recent years. However, it remains unclear how it evolved from his older theory of knowledge. This study deals with this question on the basis of Cassirer’s ‘disposition’ of a ‘philosophy of the symbolic’, reconstructed here for the first time. This text shows that the ‘symbolic’ refers to culture as a whole and to its inherent diversity. Therefore, ‘the symbolic’ includes the relationship between the general transcendental conditions of culture and its empirical specificities in language and languages, art and the arts, myth and myths, science and disciplines. Cassirer does not comprehend this empirical and specific reality of symbolization depending on pre-existing transcendental conditions. Instead, he proceeds from the empirical diversity of the symbolisations and reflects on their simultaneously general and specific conditions. Thus, Cassirer embarks on a path that he finds paved in Kant’s "Critique of Judgement": He consequently defines ‘the symbolic’ as the horizon for a reflective approach based on empirical findings – and not as the foundation of a systematic derivation of the diversity of culture in the style of the idealistic tradition.

Issued also in print.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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