Ernst Cassirer

The Myth of the State

Analysis of totalitarianism and its mythological political propaganda structures

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Ernst Cassirer
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.

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