The Philosophy of Symbolic Forms: Volume 4: The Metaphysics of Symbolic Forms

by Ernst Cassirer

Book Overview

At his death in 1945, the influential German philosopher Ernst Cassirer left manuscripts for the fourth and final volume of his magnum opus, The Philosophy of Symbolic Forms. John Michael Krois and Donald Phillip Verene have edited these writings and translated them into English for the first time, bringing to completion Cassirer's major treatment of the concept of symbolic form.

Ernst Cassirer believed that all the forms of representation...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0300074336
• ISBN13: 9780300074338
• Release Date: January 1998
• Publisher: Yale University Press
• Length: 264 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.0" x 7.9"