The Philosophy of Symbolic Forms, Volume 1: Language
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ISBN: 0300000375 / Publisher: Yale University Press, September 1965
“An outstanding contribution to epistemology and to the human power of abstraction.”—F.I.G. Rawlins,...
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“An outstanding contribution to epistemology and to the human power of abstraction.”—F.I.G. Rawlins, Nature The Symbolic Forms has long been considered by many who knew it in the original German as the greatest of Ernst 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 mankind has expressed itself and given intelligible objective form to the human experience.
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