The Philosophy of Symbolic Forms, Volume 1: Language

Ernst Cassirer Charles W. Hendel Ralph Manheim

ISBN 10: 0300000375 / ISBN 13: 9780300000375

Published by Yale Univ Pr, 1953

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342 pages. 8.00x5.25x1.00 inches. In Stock.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Philosophy of Symbolic Forms, Volume 1: Language
• Publisher: Yale Univ Pr
• Publication Date: 1953
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0300000375
• ISBN 13: 9780300000375
• Binding: Paperback
• Condition: Brand New
• Weight: 0.38 kilograms

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Synopsis

“An outstanding contribution to epistemology and to the human power of abstraction.”—F.I.G. Rawlins, Nature

The Symbolic Forms has long been considered by many who knew it in the original German as the greatest of Ernst 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 mankind has expressed itself and given intelligible objective form to the human experience.

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'The Philosophy of Symbolic Forms' has long been considered by many who knew it in the original German as the greatest of Ernst 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 his experience.