Title: The origins of the philosophy of symbolic forms : Kant, Hegel, and Cassirer /
Authors: Verene, Donald Phillip, 1937-
Publisher: Northwestern University Press,
Year: 2011
Subjects: Cassirer, Ernst,; Kant, Immanuel, Influence.; Hegel, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich, Influence.; Symbolism.
Contents: Introduction: schema, substance, and symbol -- Linguistic form: the critique of reason becomes the critique of culture -- Mythical thought: beginning the ladder of consciousness -- Phenomenology of knowledge: taking phenomenology in the Hegelian, not the modern sense -- Metaphysics of symbolic forms: spirit, life, and Werk -- Logic of the cultural sciences: nature and culture -- Animal symbolicum -- Human freedom and politics.