by Ernst Cassirer (Author), Ralph Manheim (Translator), Charles Hendel (Contribution by)
The Symbolic Forms has long been considered the greatest of Cassirer's works. Into it he poured all the resources of his vast learning about language and myth, religion, art, and science-the various creative symbolizing activities and constructions through which man has expressed himself and given intelligible objective form to his experience.
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'The Philosophy of Symbolic Forms' has long been considered by many who knew it in the original German as the greatest of Ernst Cassirer's works. Into it he poured all the resources of his vast learning about language and myth, religion, art and science-the various creative symbolizing activities and constructions through which man has expressed himself and given intelligible objective form to his experience.
Number of Pages: 388
Dimensions: 0.71 x 8.5 x 5.54 IN
Publication Date: December 12, 1955
