Cassirer&#39;s Metaphysics of Symbolic Forms: A Philosophical Commentary

Thora Ilin Bayer

Published by Yale University Press 2008

Cassirer's Metaphysics of Symbolic Forms

A Philosophical Commentary

Thora Ilin Bayer

https://doi.org/10.12987/9780300127171

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About this book

This bookthe first commentary on Ernst Cassirer’s Metaphysics of Symbolic Formsprovides an introduction to the metaphysical views that underlie the philosopher’s conceptions of symbolic form and human culture.

Thora Ilin Bayer focuses on the meaning of Cassirer’s claim that philosophy is not itself a symbolic form but the thought around which all aspects of human activity are seen as a whole. Underlying the symbolic forms are Cassirer’s two metaphysical principles, spirit (Geist) and life, which interact to produce the reality of the human world. Bayer shows how these two principles of Cassirer’s early philosophy are connected with the phenomenology of his later philosophy, which centers on his conception of basis phenomena”self, will, and work.

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Thora Ilin Bayer is assistant professor of philosophy at Xavier University, New Orleans. Donald Phillip Verene, the Charles Howard Candler Professor of Metaphysics and Moral Philosophy at Emory University, is the coeditor of Cassir

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	vii
Introduction The Development of Cassirer’s Philosophy Donald Phillip Verene Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
Part I. The Early Texts
I. Life and Spirit Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	41
2. The Object of Philosophy Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	80
Part II. The Late Text
3. Basis Phenomena Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	129
4. The Work of Philosophy Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	153
Bibliography Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	195
Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	205

Language: English
Publisher: Yale University Press
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- Main content: 224

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Published: October 1, 2008
ISBN: 9780300127171