http://web.flu.cas.cz/scan/323544082.pdf WebbThe 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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WebbElocution is the study of formal speaking in pronunciation, grammar, style, and tone as well as the idea and practice of effective speech and its forms. It stems from the idea that while communication is symbolic, sounds are final and compelling. It came into popularity in England in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries and in America during the nineteenth … WebbIn the first volume, Cassirer explores the symbolic form of language. Already recognized by thinkers in the tradition of German Idealism, such as Wilhelm von Humboldt, language is … chitin research revisited

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WebbThe Philosophy of Symbolic Forms is Cassirer's most important work. It was first published in German in 1923, the third and final volume appearing in 1929. In it Cassirer presents a radical new philosophical worldview - at once rich, creative and controversial - of human beings as fundamentally "symbolic animals", placing signs and systems of … WebbDoes form precede structure or does structure precede form, or in other words, is the word the thing or is the thing the word. Gadamer in 1960 will say in Truth and Method “All understanding is interpretation. Being that can be understood is language”. Cassirer in this volume (in the 1920s) makes our symbols as significant and meaningful as the thing-in … WebbThe Problem of “Representation” [Repräsentation] and the Construction of Consciousness Page: 24 4. The Ideal Significance of the Sign: Overcoming the Picture Theory [Abbildtheorie] Page: 38 Volume 1: Toward a Phenomenology of the Linguistic Form Page: 51 I The Problem of Language in the History of Philosophy Page: 53 1. chitin rimworld