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The Paths of Symbolic Knowledge: Occasional Papers in Cassirer and Cultural-theory Studies, Presented at the University of Glasgow's Centre for Intercultural Studies: No. 2 Occasional Papers in Cassirer and Cultural-theory Studies, Presented at the University of Glasgow's Centre for Intercultural Studies
By Paul Bishop
Copyright 2006
140 Pages
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Routledge
Volume 2 of a collection of occasional papers on the Paths of Symbolic Knowledge in Cassirer and Cultural-theory Studies, presented at the University of Glasgow's Centre for Intercultural Studies.
Foreword by Paul Bishop and R . H. Stephenson, Acknowledgements, Contributors, 1 Metabasis and Translation: Ernst Cassirer and Walter Benjamin on Language Theory, 2 Myth and Religion in Cassirer’s Philosophy of Symbolic Forms, 3 Ernst Cassirer and Oswald Spengler: Two Philosophies of Culture in the Light of a Political Polemic, 4 Cassirer, Warburg, and the Irrational, 5 ‘Eine geistige Urform der geschichtlichen Erkenntnis’? Cassirer and Bachofen on the Symbol, 6 The Symbolization of Culture: Nietzsche in the Footsteps of Goethe, Schiller, Schopenhauer, and Wagner, 7 Schiller’s ‘Concrete’ Theory of Culture: Reflections on the 200th Anniversary of his Death, Index
Biography
Paul Bishop
