Symbolic forms and cultural studies : Ernst Cassirer's theory of culture /
Hamlin, Cyrus.
Krois, John Michael.
New Haven, Conn. ; London : Yale University Press,
c2004.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Pt. 1. Culture as a philosophical concept.  The variety of symbolic world and the unity of mind / Oswald Schwemmer ; Cassirer's concept of a philosophy of human culture / Donald Philip Verene ; The modern concept of culture as indicator of a metaphysical problem / Ernst Wolfgang Orth ; Cassirer's symbolic theory of culture and the historicization of philosophy / Louis Dupré. -- Pt. 2. Problems in the philosophical interpretation of culture.  "Art" and "Science" in The philosophy of symbolic forms / Michael Holquist ; The subject of culture / Steve Lofts ; Styles of change: Ernst Cassirer's philosophical writing / Barbara Naumann. -- Pt. 3. Comparative studies.  Bakhtin and Cassirer: the philosophical origins of carnival messianism / Brian Poole ; From culture to politics: the "Aufhebung" of ethics in Ernst Cassirer's political philosophy in comparison with the "Political theology" of Ernst Kantorowicz / Enno Rudolph ; Speaking of symbols: affinities between Cassirer's and Jung's theories of language / Paul Bishop ; "Eine zarte Differenz": Cassirer on Goethe on the symbol / R.H. Stephenson ; Goethe as model for cultural values: Ernst Cassirer's Essay on Thomas Mann's Lotte in Weimar / Cyrus Hamlin. -- Pt. 4. Cassirer's philosophical outlook.  The missing core of Cassirer's philosophy: Homo Faber in thin air / Gideon Freudenthal ; The Davos disputation and twentieth-century philosophy / Michael Friedman ; Why did Cassirer and Heidegger not debate in Davos? / John Michael Krois. -- Appendix: How the Cassirer papers came to Yale / Vincent Giroud.
Cassirer, Ernst, 1874-1945.
Culture