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Ernst Cassirer ( July 28, 1874 - April 13, 1945) was a German philosopher. He became a doctor of philosophy at University of Marburg in 1899 where he studied with Hermann Cohen and Paul Natorp , thus being widely considered a neo-Kantian although he later developed his own philosophy of culture .As a Jew, he had no easy academic career. After long years as Privatdozent in Berlin, he was appointed to a chair of philosophy in HamburgHamburg is Germany's second largest city (after Berlin) and its principal port. The official name Freie und Hansestadt Hamburg recalls its membership in the mediaeval Hanseatic League and the fact that Hamburg is a city state and one of Germany's sixteen in 1919Events January January 1 Edsel Ford succeeds his father as head of the Ford Motor Company January 5 Spartacist uprising Socialist demonstrations in Berlin turn into attempted communist revolution with Spartacist League in the forefront January 9 Spartacus, where he lectured until 1933Centuries: 19th century 20th century 21st century Decades: 1880s 1890s 1900s 1910s 1920s 1930s 1940s 1950s 1960s 1970s 1980s Years: 1928 1929 1930 1931 1932 1933 1934 1935 1936 1937 1938 See also 1933 in aviation 1933 in film 1933 in literature 1933 in mu, forced to leave Germany when the Naziswastika as their symbol and the red and black colors were said to represent Blut und Boden (blood and soil). Black, white, and red were in fact the colors of the old North German Confederation flag (invented by Otto von Bismarck, based on the Prussian cos came to power.
He found refuge as a lecturer in OxfordThis is about the city of Oxford in England. See also other meanings, including other cities. Oxford is a city and local government district in Oxfordshire, England, with a population of 134,248 ( 2001 census). Its latitude and longitude are 51°45'07" N a, 1933Centuries: 19th century 20th century 21st century Decades: 1880s 1890s 1900s 1910s 1920s 1930s 1940s 1950s 1960s 1970s 1980s Years: 1928 1929 1930 1931 1932 1933 1934 1935 1936 1937 1938 See also 1933 in aviation 1933 in film 1933 in literature 1933 in mu- 1935Events January January 1 Italian colonies of Tripoli and Kyrenaika are joined together as Libya January 7 World War II: Italian premier Benito Mussolini and French foreign minister Pierre Laval conclude agreement in which each power undertakes not to oppo, was professor at Gothenburg UniversityGothenburg University or Goteborgs universitet is a university in Gothenburg, Sweden. Famous scholars Sture Allen There is also a separate Gothenburg School of Economics and Commercial Law at the university. The Sahlgrenska University Hospital is associat 1935Events January January 1 Italian colonies of Tripoli and Kyrenaika are joined together as Libya January 7 World War II: Italian premier Benito Mussolini and French foreign minister Pierre Laval conclude agreement in which each power undertakes not to oppo to 1941, visiting professor at Yale University, New Haven 1941- 1943, and finally lived in New York lecturing at Columbia University from 1943 until his death in 1945. As he had been naturalized in Sweden, he died on Columbia campus a Swedish citizen of German-Jewish decent.
Cassirer was both a genuine philosopher and historian of philosophy.
His major work, Philosophy of Symbolic Forms (3 vols., 1923-1929) is considered a benchmark for a philosophy of culture . Man, says Cassirer later in his more popular Essay on Man (1944), is a "symbolic animal". Whereas animals perceive their world by instincts, man has created his own universe of symbolic meaning that structures and shapes his perception of reality.
In this, Cassirer owes much to Kant's transcendental idealism, which claimed that the actual world cannot be known, but that the human view on reality is shaped by our means of perceiving it.
Works (selection):
- Substance and Function (1910), English translation 1923
- Kant's Life and Thought (1918), English translation 1981
- Philosophy of Symbolic Forms (1923-29), English translation 1953-1957
- Philosophy of the Enlightenment (1932), English translation 1951
- The Logic of the Humanities (1942), English translation 1961
- An Essay on Man (written and published in English) (1944)
- The Myth of the State (written and published in English) (posthumous) (1946)
Cassirer, Ernst
Cassirer, Ernst
Cassirer, Ernst
