The Philosophy of Symbolic Forms: Volume 1: LanguageThe Symbolic Forms has long been considered the greatest of Cassirer's works. Into it he poured all the resources of his vast learning about language and myth, religion, art, and science--the various creative symbolizing activities and constructions through which man has expressed himself and given intelligible objective form to this experience.
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Contents
Introduction by Charles W Hendel | 1 |
Made of the Developing Theory of Form | 21 |
Foreword by the Author | 69 |
Universal Function of the Sign The Problem of Meaning | 85 |
The Problem of Representation and the Structure | 93 |
Ideational Content of the Sign Transcending the Copy | 105 |
The Problem of Language in the History of Philosophy | 117 |
Language in the Phase of Sensuous Expression | 177 |
Language in the Phase of Intuitive Expression | 198 |
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Language and the Sphere of Inner Intuition Phases | 249 |
Language as Expression of Conceptual Thought Concept | 278 |
Language and the Expression of the Forms of Pure | 303 |
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abstract according action activity Altaic languages analysis apprehended articulation Bantu languages basic becomes Brugmann Cassirer Cassirer's characteristic cognition concept concrete consciousness copula Critique Critique of Judgment cultural forms Descartes designate differentiation distinction diverse elements epistemology Ernst Cassirer Essay example expression factor function fundamental Goethe Grammatik Grundriss guage Hegel Heraclitus Herder human spirit Humboldt Ibid idea ideal individual Indo-Germanic inner intellectual intuition Jacob Grimm Kant Kant's Kawi-Werk knowledge language formation Leibniz linguistic logical meaning merely metaphysics myth nature nouns objective original particular perception phenomena philosophy of language phonetic plural possess principle problem pronoun pure reality relation representation schema seems Semitic languages sense sensory sensuous sentence signification spatial specific sphere Sprache Sprachen substance suffixes Symbolic Forms synthesis temporal theory things thought tion true ultimate understanding unity universal Ural-Altaic languages verb verbal Werke whole word