· 2021
The Philosophy of Symbolic Forms
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- 2021year
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A new translation of Ernst Cassirer's "The Philosophy of Symbolic Forms" (1923-1929) reintroduces his magnum opus, positing humans as fundamentally "symbolic animals" who mediate their reality through signs and expression systems.
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