Cassirer’s Transformation: From a Transcendental to a Semiotic Philosophy of Forms

Cassirer’s Transformation: From a Transcendental to a Semiotic Philosophy of Forms
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Publisher : Springer Nature
Total Pages : 198
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ISBN-10 : 9783030429058
ISBN-13 : 3030429059
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Synopsis Cassirer’s Transformation: From a Transcendental to a Semiotic Philosophy of Forms by : Jean Lassègue

This book presents the transformation of Cassirer’s transcendental point of view. At an early stage, Cassirer was confronted with a scientific crisis triggered by the emergence of various forms of objective knowledge, such as the plurality of geometric axiom systems and non-Euclidean geometry in relativistic physics. He finally developed a solution to the problematic unity of objective knowledge by replacing the overarching notion of objectivity with that of forms of objectification. This led him to consider the notion of “symbolic forms” as the driving force in the objectification process. This concept would become instrumental in demonstrating that the objective and human sciences are not adversaries; they merely differ in their modes of semiotic construction. These modes cannot be summarized in a fixed list of symbolic forms but operate transversally, at a level where Cassirer distinguishes between three specific operators: Expression, Evocation and Objectification. The last part of the book investigates how the relationships between these three operators stabilize specific symbolic forms. Four of these forms are then studied as examples: Myth and Ritual, Language, Scientific Knowledge, and Technology.

The Genesis of the Symbolic

The Genesis of the Symbolic
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Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Total Pages : 412
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ISBN-10 : 9783110623635
ISBN-13 : 3110623633
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Synopsis The Genesis of the Symbolic by : Arno Schubbach

Ernst Cassirer’s philosophy of culture has been much discussed in recent years. However, it remains unclear how it evolved from his older theory of knowledge. This study deals with this question on the basis of Cassirer’s ‘disposition’ of a ‘philosophy of the symbolic’, reconstructed here for the first time. This text shows that the ‘symbolic’ refers to culture as a whole and to its inherent diversity. Therefore, ‘the symbolic’ includes the relationship between the general transcendental conditions of culture and its empirical specificities in language and languages, art and the arts, myth and myths, science and disciplines. Cassirer does not comprehend this empirical and specific reality of symbolization depending on pre-existing transcendental conditions. Instead, he proceeds from the empirical diversity of the symbolisations and reflects on their simultaneously general and specific conditions. Thus, Cassirer embarks on a path that he finds paved in Kant’s "Critique of Judgement": He consequently defines ‘the symbolic’ as the horizon for a reflective approach based on empirical findings – and not as the foundation of a systematic derivation of the diversity of culture in the style of the idealistic tradition.

Complexities 2

Complexities 2
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Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Total Pages : 292
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ISBN-10 : 9781394297467
ISBN-13 : 1394297467
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Synopsis Complexities 2 by : Jean-Pierre Briffaut

Awareness of complexity in science and technology dates back to the 1970s. However, all social systems tend to develop structures that become more complex over time, be it within families, tribes, cities, states, or societal and economic organizations. Complexities 2 covers a broad array of fields, from justice and linguistics to education and organizational management. The aim of this book is to show, without aiming to provide a comprehensive overview, the diversity of approaches and behaviors towards the obstacle of complexity in understanding and achieving human actions. When we see complexity as the incompleteness of knowledge and the uncertainty of the future, we realize that simplifying is not an adequate approach to complexity, even in the humanities and social sciences. This book explores the relationship between order and disorder in this field of knowledge.

Sheets, Diagrams, and Realism in Peirce

Sheets, Diagrams, and Realism in Peirce
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Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Total Pages : 537
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ISBN-10 : 9783110793673
ISBN-13 : 3110793679
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Synopsis Sheets, Diagrams, and Realism in Peirce by : Frederik Stjernfelt

This book investigates a number of central problems in the philosophy of Charles Peirce grouped around the realism of his semiotics: the issue of how sign systems are developed and used in the investigation of reality. Thus, it deals with the precise character of Peirce's realism; with Peirce's special notion of propositions as signs which, at the same time, denote and describe the same object. It deals with diagrams as signs which depict more or less abstract states-of-affairs, facilitating reasoning about them; with assertions as public claims about the truth of propositions. It deals with iconicity in logic, the issue of self-control in reasoning, dependences between phenomena in their realist descriptions. A number of chapters deal with applied semiotics: with biosemiotic sign use among pre-human organisms: the multimedia combination of pictorial and linguistic information in human semiotic genres like cartoons, posters, poetry, monuments. All in all, the book makes a strong case for the actual relevance of Peirce's realist semiotics.

Transformations of Transcendental Philosophy

Transformations of Transcendental Philosophy
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Total Pages : 380
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ISBN-10 : UVA:X002411270
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Synopsis Transformations of Transcendental Philosophy by : R. Sundara Rajan

Basicalls Addresses 2 Questions- What Kind Of Changes Or Transformations The Idea Of Philosophy Has Undergone In The Present Century - In What Ways Their Critical Transformation Have Affected The Transcendal Project. 6 Chapters-Notes-Index.

Continental Divide

Continental Divide
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Publisher : Harvard University Press
Total Pages : 443
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ISBN-10 : 9780674064171
ISBN-13 : 0674064178
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Synopsis Continental Divide by : Peter E. Gordon

In the spring of 1929, Martin Heidegger and Ernst Cassirer met for a public conversation in Davos, Switzerland. They were arguably the most important thinkers in Europe, and their exchange touched upon the most urgent questions in the history of philosophy: What is human finitude? What is objectivity? What is culture? What is truth? Over the last eighty years the Davos encounter has acquired an allegorical significance, as if it marked an ultimate and irreparable rupture in twentieth-century Continental thought. Here, in a reconstruction at once historical and philosophical, Peter Gordon reexamines the conversation, its origins and its aftermath, resuscitating an event that has become entombed in its own mythology. Through a close and painstaking analysis, Gordon dissects the exchange itself to reveal that it was at core a philosophical disagreement over what it means to be human. But Gordon also shows how the life and work of these two philosophers remained closely intertwined. Their disagreement can be understood only if we appreciate their common point of departure as thinkers of the German interwar crisis, an era of rebellion that touched all of the major philosophical movements of the dayÑlife-philosophy, philosophical anthropology, neo-Kantianism, phenomenology, and existentialism. As Gordon explains, the Davos debate would continue to both inspire and provoke well after the two men had gone their separate ways. It remains, even today, a touchstone of philosophical memory. This clear, riveting book will be of great interest not only to philosophers and to historians of philosophy but also to anyone interested in the great intellectual ferment of Europe's interwar years.

The Liberating Power of Symbols

The Liberating Power of Symbols
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Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Total Pages : 114
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ISBN-10 : 9780745694337
ISBN-13 : 0745694330
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Synopsis The Liberating Power of Symbols by : Jürgen Habermas

In this new collection of lectures and essays Jurgen Habermas engages with a wide range of figures in twentieth-century thought. The book displays once again his ability to capture the essence of a thinker's work, his feeling for the texture of intellectual traditions and his outstanding powers of critical assessment. Habermas has described these essays as 'fragments of a history of contemporary philosophy'. The volume includes explorations of the work of Ernst Cassirer, Karl Jaspers and Gershom Scholem, as well as reponses to friends and colleagues such as Michael Thuenissen, Karl-Otto Apel and the writer and film-maker Alexander Kluge. It also includes pieces on the Finnish philosopher Georg Henrik von Wright and the theologian Johann Baptist Metz. This new volume will be an invaluable resource for students and scholars of Habermas and twentieth-century philosophy.

Towards a Transformation of Philosophy

Towards a Transformation of Philosophy
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Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Total Pages : 194
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ISBN-10 : 9781003805854
ISBN-13 : 100380585X
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Synopsis Towards a Transformation of Philosophy by : Karl Otto Apel

First Published in 1980 (English Translation) Towards a Transformation of Philosophy presents selected essays from Karl -Otto Apel’s two- volume German collection that was published in 1973 under the title Transformation der Philosophie. Karl -Otto Apel’s studies in philosophy and the social sciences can be said to have bridged the gap that had hitherto existed between the Anglo-Saxon traditions of analytical philosophy of language and pragmatism, and the philosophical traditions of the European continent of phenomenology, existentialism, and hermeneutics. Apel points to language as the crucial dimension in the constitution of historical meaning and therefore as the historical condition for the possibility of truth. In this context he discusses the hermeneutic dimension of Wittgenstein’s philosophy and that of his followers, together with the development of pragmatism and with recent trends in Chomsky’s linguistics. In arguing for the complementarity of technical and practical interests in acquiring knowledge for a critical theory of society Apel examines the preconditions for an emancipatory critique of ideology and the communication community as the predeterminate of both the social sciences and moral discourse. In all the essays, Apel sets out to counter the positivistic and scientistic restrictions placed upon a satisfactory understanding of the preconditions for the possibility and validity of human knowledge. This is a must read for scholars and researchers of philosophy.

Symbolic Forms and Cultural Studies

Symbolic Forms and Cultural Studies
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Publisher : Yale University Press
Total Pages : 318
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ISBN-10 : 9780300103298
ISBN-13 : 0300103298
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Synopsis Symbolic Forms and Cultural Studies by : Cyrus Hamlin

Cassirer's conception of culture & theory of symbolism anticipated much of later cultural theory. The essays in this volume explore aspects of his thinking & demonstrate the influence that it had on later scholarship.

Substance and Function, and Einstein's Theory of Relativity

Substance and Function, and Einstein's Theory of Relativity
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Total Pages : 488
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ISBN-10 : UOM:39015049410973
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Synopsis Substance and Function, and Einstein's Theory of Relativity by : Ernst Cassirer

"The first part of the present book, Substanzbegriff und funktionsbegriff, was published in 1910, while the second part, which we have called the supplement, Zur Einstein'schen relativit©Þtstheorie, appeared in 1921." Bibliography: p. 457-460.