The Warburg Years (1919-1933): Essays on Language, Art, Myth, and Technology
Nov 2013 · Yale University Press
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Jewish German philosopher Ernst Cassirer was a leading proponent of the Marburg school of neo-Kantianism. The essays in this volume provide a window into Cassirer’s discovery of the symbolic nature of human existence—that our entire emotional and intellectual life is configured and formed through the originary expressive power of word and image, that it is in and through the symbolic cultural systems of language, art, myth, religion, science, and technology that human life realizes itself and attains not only its form, its visibility, but also its reality. Thought and being are set in opposition and united in genuine correspondence by the symbolic strife between them that Cassirer calls Auseinandersetzung, which determines the ethical relationship of the self to the other.
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November 13, 2014
Was this volume ever edited? The introduction is careless. Cassirer’s 1902 book is “Leibniz’ System,” not “Leibnizs System”; the title of his 1924 essay “Eidos und Eidolon" is cited incorrectly; the Aristotelian term energeia cannot be translated as “making actual” or “bringing something concretely about.” And the translations of Cassirer are disgraceful. The translator of "The Kantian Elements in Wilhelm von Humboldt's Philosophy of Language," for example, appears to be ignorant of both Cassirer's work and the German language. Where was Yale University Press in all of this?
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S. G. Lofts and A. Calcagno are professors of philosophy at King’s University College at Western University, London, Canada.
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