The Jewish German philosopher Ernst Cassirer was one of the leading proponents of the Marburg school of neo-Kantianism. The essays in this volume provide a window into Cassirer's discovery of the symbolic nature of human existence – the fact that our...

This new translation of "The Logic of the Cultural Sciences" (formerly entitled "The Logic of the Humanities") makes Ernst Cassirer's classic study, long out of print, available to English readers. A German Jew living in exile at the beginning of the...

At his death in 1945, the influential German philosopher Ernst Cassirer left manuscripts for the fourth and final volume of his magnum opus, "The Philosophy of Symbolic Forms". John Michael Krois and Donald Phillip Verene have edited these writings a...

Here is the first Kant-biography in English since Paulsen's and Cassirer's only full-scale study of Kant's philosophy. On a very deep level, all of Cassirer's philosophy was based on Kant's, and accordingly this book is Cassirer's explicit coming to...

The papers in this volume of Ernst Cassirer's unpublished works give insight into the major issues that engaged Cassirer's interest between 1935 and 1945. The book begins with his inaugural address at the University of Goteborg, Sweden, in the first...

Cassirer employs his remarkable gift of lucidity to explain the major ideas and intellectual issues that emerged in the course of nineteenth century scientific and historical thinking. The translators have done an excellent job in reproducing his cla...

The "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 constructio...

The "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 constructio...

The "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 constructio...

A great contemporary German philosopher attacks the explosive problem of political myth in our day, and reveals how the myth of the state evolved from primitive times to prepare the way for the rise of the modern totalitarian state. A brilliant surve...