The paths of symbolic knowledge
Subtitle: occasional papers in Cassirer and cultural-theory studies, presented at the University of Glasgow's Centre for Intercultural Studies
By: edited by Paul Bishop and R.H. Stephenson.
Contributors: Bishop, Paul, 1967-; Stephenson, R. H.
Series: Cultural studies and the symbolic -- v. 2
Publisher: Maney
Published: 2006
Place of publication: Leeds, UK
Language: eng
Number of pages: 121
ISBN-13: 9781904350279
Subjects: Cassirer, Ernst, -- 1874-1945; Culture -- Philosophy; Culture -- Study and teaching
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Metabasis and translation: Ernst Cassirer and Walter Benjamin on language theory / Barbara Naumann; title: Myth and religion in Cassiere's Philosophy of Symbolic Forms / Louis Dupré; title: Ernst Cassirer and Oswald Spengler: two philosophies of culture in the light of a political polemic / Dina Gusejnova; title: Cassirer, Warburg and the irrational / Edward Skidelsky; title: 'Eine geistige Urform der geschichtlichen Erkenntnis'? Cassirer and Bachofen on the symbol / Paul Bishop; title: The symbolization of culture: Nietzsche in the footsteps of Goethe, Schiller, Schopenhauer and Wagner / Martine Prange; title: Schiller's 'concrete' theory of culture: reflections on the 200th anniversary of his death / R.H. Stephenson.