Ernst Cassirer and the Autonomy of Language

by Gregory S. Moss

Book Overview

Gregory S. Moss examines the central arguments in Ernst Cassirer's first volume of the Philosophy of Symbolic Forms to show how Cassirer defends language as an autonomous cultural form, and how he borrows the concept of the "concrete universal" from G. W. F. Hegel in order to develop a concept of cultural autonomy.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0739186221
• ISBN13: 9780739186220
• Release Date: November 2014
• Publisher: Lexington Books
• Length: 274 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.1" x 9.1"