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Author: Simon Truwant

Interpreting Cassirer Critical Essays 1st Edition Table of contents:

Part I Cassirer’s Philosophy of Culture
Chapter 1 Interaction between Language and the Other Symbolic Forms
I Language As the Basis for a Philosophy of Culture
II Three Functions of Language
III Mythical Language
IV Shifting Modalities of Language in Religion, Art, and Science
a Religious Language
b Artistic Language
c Scientific Language
V Historical Language and the ‘Return’ of Myth
a Hybrid Historical Language
b The Proximity of History and Myth in German Culture
Chapter 2 The Status of Art in Cassirer’s System of Culture
I Introduction
II Cassirer’s System of Culture
a The Subjective-Objective System of Culture
b The System of Symbolic Forms
III The Symbolic Form of Art
IV Art’s Relation to the Other Symbolic Forms
V Conclusion
Chapter 3 Being in Time: History As an Expression and Interpretation of Human Culture
I Introduction
II Is History a Symbolic Form?
III Historical Method
IV Objectivity in History
V Art and History
VI Conclusion
Chapter 4 Science As a Symbolic Form: Ernst Cassirer’s Culture of Reason
I Introduction
II Science between History and Philosophy
III The Final Goal and the Cultural Significance of Science
IV Renaissance Thought and Modern Science
V Closing Remarks
Chapter 5 Quantum Mechanics As the Ultimate Mode of Symbol Formation: The Final Stage of Cassirer’s Philosophy of Physical Science
I Introduction
II Determinism and Indeterminism in Modern Physics: A Brief Synopsis
III Symbolic Algebra of States and Observables
IV Relevance of the Philosophy of Symbolic Forms
V Purely Symbolic Quantum Mechanics
VI The Wavefunction as Symbol
Chapter 6 Spirit in the Age of Technical Production
I The Promethean Challenge of Technology
II Technology As Symbolic Form
III The Promethean Promise of Technology
Chapter 7 Political Myth and the Problem of Orientation: Reading Cassirer in Times of Cultural Crisis
I The Dangers of Political Myth
II ”The Crisis of Man’s Knowledge of Himself”
III The Challenge to Objective Truth
IV The Cosmopolitan Task of Philosophy
Part II Cassirer’s Philosophy of Consciousness
Chapter 8 Rethinking Representation: Cassirer’s Philosophy of Human Perceiving, Thinking, and Understanding
I Representational ”Natural” Signs
II Representation without Representationalism
III Signs That Perspectivally Generate Human Reality
IV Thinking in Representational Signs
V Contextual Symbolic Pregnance
VI Orders of Knowledge in the Background of Representations
VII Conclusion: Cassirer’s View on Representation
Chapter 9 Cassirer’s Philosophy of Mind: From Consciousness to ”Objective Spirit”
I The Holistic Structure of Sensuous Experience: Cassirer and Empirical Gestalt Psychology
II The Holistic Structure of the Mind: Cassirer’s Transcendental Deduction of Symbolic Representation
III Cassirer’s Anti-physicalist Strategy
IV From Mind to Objective Spirit
V Conclusion
Part III Cassirer’s Philosophical Method
Chapter 10 Cassirer’s Phenomenological Affinities
I Convergence
a The Autonomy of Logic
b The Paradigmatic Theory of Manifolds
c The Intensionality of Concepts
d Abstraction, Concept Formation, and Universals
e Kantian Legacy: Spontaneity, Synthesis, and Constitutive Enablement
f Idealism and the Primacy of Meaning
II Divergence amidst Convergence
a Sensations and Intuitions
b Perception’s Meanings
Chapter 11 Cassirer’s Place in Today’s Philosophical Landscape: ”Synthetic Philosophy,” Transcendental Idealism, Cultural Pluralism
I Cassirer As a ”Post-split” Philosopher
II Criteria for Post-split ”Synthetic Philosophy”
a Historical Sensitivity Meets Systematic Focus
b A Necessary Mix of A Priori and Empirical Truths
c Combination of Conceptual Analysis and Descriptive Synthesis
d The Dialectics of Exegesis and Jargon
III Examples of a Synthetic Philosopher: Cassirerian Case Studies
a Das Erkenntnisproblem
b Cassirer’s Conception of the a Priori
c Cassirer’s View of Contemporary Phenomenology
d Cassirer’s Critique of Heidegger’s Language
IV The Interdependence of Transcendental Idealism and Cultural Pluralism
Bibliography
Index

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