Ernst Cassirer on Form and Technology [electronic resource] : Contemporary Readings /
Hoel, A.editor.
Folkvord, I.editor.
Ernst Cassirer's thought-provoking essay Form and Technology (1930) ascribes to technology a new dignity as a genuine tool of the mind in equal company with language and art. Translated here into English it is accompanied by critical essays that explore its current relevance.
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Cover; Contents; List of Figures; Acknowledgements; Notes on the Contributors; Introduction; PART I: FORM AND TECHNOLOGY; 1 Form and Technology; Section I; Section II; Section III; Section IV; 2 The Age of Complete Mechanization; PART II: CONTEMPORARY READINGS; 3 Technics of Thinking; Reframing the problem of technology; Expanding and transforming logos; Bios and logos; Truth, distance and intervention; Poetic infinity; Technology and the possible; Science criticism; Extended mind; Transformational realism
4 The Struggle of Titans - Ernst Jünger and Ernst Cassirer: Vitalist and Enlightenment Philosophies of Technology in Weimar GermanyTechnics as Titanic destiny; Technology as symbolic form; Cassirer versus vitalist criticism of technology; 5 Technology as Destiny in Cassirer and Heidegger: Continuing the Davos Debate; The Davos debate; The philosophical challenge of technology; Cassirer''s ''Form and Technology''; Heidegger''s initial approach to the problem of technology; Heidegger''s later approach to the question of technology; Concluding comparative remarks
6 Technical Activity as a Symbolic Form: Comparing Money and LanguageA disparity in Cassirer''s philosophy; Three points to reconsider; The analogy between money and language; Conclusion; 7 The Power of Voice: Ernst Cassirer and Bertolt Brecht on Technology, Expressivity and Democracy; Hardened scepticism; Brecht versus Cassirer; Brecht and Cassirer: addressing posterity?; 8 ''Representation'' and ''Presence'' in the Philosophy of Ernst Cassirer; Section I; Section II; Section III; 9 Cultural Poetics and the Politics of Literature; Truth and facts; Symbolic forms; The politics of literature
Creation, exposition, transposition10 Cave Art as Symbolic Form; Outside; Entrance: the study of cave art; Hallway and passages: Cassirer on tools and technologies; Galleries: on the remaking of the horses in Pech Merle; Exit: on the way out of an impasse?; Outside again; 11 Failures of Convergence; Section I; Section II; Section III; Section IV; Index
Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.
Ernst Cassirer's thought-provoking essay Form and Technology (1930) ascribes to technology a new dignity as a genuine tool of the mind in equal company with language and art. Translated here into English it is accompanied by critical essays that explore its current relevance.
Cassirer, Ernst, 1874-1945.
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