The Logic of the Humanities

Author: Cassirer
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Publish Date: 2004-08-01
Features: This book is an important work by Ernst Cassirer, a renowned German philosopher and a representative figure of the Marburg School of Neo-Kantianism. In this book, the author explores major issues in five chapters, including the object of the humanities, different perceptions of nature and the humanities, the differences between the concept of nature and the concept of the humanities, cultural forms, cultural values, and the modern cultural tragedy. The book aims to address the possibility and foundation of the humanities and the humanities from the perspective of his "philosophy of symbolic forms." Published in 1942, it, along with the later "The Human Condition" (1944), forms a representative achievement of Cassirer's late cultural philosophy and is considered a classic in modern Western cultural philosophy.