1st Edition

Cultural Studies and the Symbolic: Theory Studies, Presented at the Univeristy of Glasgow's Centre for Intercultural Studies: v. 1: Occasional papers in cassirer and cultural Theory Studies, Presented at the Univeristy of Glasgow's Centre for Intercultural Studies

By Paul Bishop Copyright 2003
136 Pages
by Routledge

132 Pages
by Routledge

Given the growing disenchantment, on all sides, with the 'high theory' of the 1970s and 1980s, and with the dominant master-trope of literary and cultural reflexion of the 1980s and 1990s, the extended metaphor or 'allegory', this volume offers a timely re-examination of what, according to Goethe, is a deeper mode of understanding the symbol. Via the life-long preoccupation of Ernst Cassirer with... Read more
Cassirer and the Problem of LanguageBirgit ReckiErnst Cassirer's Concept of Kulturwissenschaft and the Tradition of the Humanities in the Modern UniversityCyrus HamlinAnalysis or Synthesis? A Cassirerian Problem in the Work of Freud and JungPaul BishopNietzsche's Aestheticism and the Value of SufferingRebecca BamfordThe Proper Object of Cultural Study : Ernst Cassirer and the Aesthetic Theory of Weimer ClassicismR.H. Stephenson

Biography

Paul Bishop