Beschreibung:
The Philosophy of Symbolic Forms is Cassirer's most important work. This major new translation brings his magnum opus to a new generation of students and scholars. Volume 1: Language is a fascinating examination of arguably the most fundamental of these systems of expression: human language.
Foreword Peter E. Gordon Translator's Preface Steve G. Lofts Translator's Introduction: The Question Concerning the Human - Life, Form, and Freedom: On the Way to an Open Cosmopolitanism Steve G. Lofts Translator's Acknowledgements Steve G. Lofts Preface Introduction and the Framing of the Problem Volume 1: Toward a Phenomenology of the Linguistic Form 1. The Problem of Language in the History of Philosophy 2. Language in the Phase of Sensible Expression 3. Language in the Phase of Intuitive Expression 4. Language as the Expression of Conceptual Thinking: The Form of Linguistic Concept and Class Formation 5. Language and the Expression of the Pure Forms of Relation: The Sphere of Judgment and the Concepts of Relation [Relation]. Glossary of German Terms Index