Ernst Cassirer
German Neo-Kantian philosopher whose Philosophy of Symbolic Forms examined how human beings create culture through language, myth, art, and science. An Essay on Man synthesized his philosophy of culture. He was one of the last great systematic philosophers in the Enlightenment tradition.
Works
- The Philosophy of Symbolic FormsComprehensive philosophy analyzing culture through language, myth, art, science
- An Essay on ManHumanistic philosophy on the essence of human nature and knowledge
- The Myth of the StateAnalysis of totalitarianism and its mythological political propaganda structures
- Language and MythStudy of language and myth as fundamental human symbolic forms
- Substance and FunctionEpistemology distinguishing substance from function in knowledge and science