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Symbolic Forms and Cultural Studies This content downloaded from All use subject to https://about.jstor.org/terms This content downloaded from All use subject to https://about.jstor.org/terms Edited by C Y R U S H A M L I N and J O H N M I C H A E L K R O I S Symbolic Forms and Cultural Studies ERNST CASSIRER’S THEORY OF CULTURE Yale University Press New Haven & London This content downloaded from All use subject to https://about.jstor.org/terms Published with assistance from the Ernst Cassirer Publication Fund. Copyright ∫ 2004 by Yale University. All rights reserved. This book may not be reproduced, in whole or in part, including illustrations, in any form (beyond that copying permitted by Sections 107 and 108 of the U.S. Copyright Law and except by reviewers for the public press), without written permission from the publishers. Set in Sabon types by Keystone Typesetting, Inc. Printed in the United States of America. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Symbolic forms and cultural studies : Ernst Cassirer’s theory of culture / edited by Cyrus Hamlin and John Michael Krois. p. cm. Includes bibliographical references and index. isbn 0-300-10329-8 (alk. paper) 1. Cassirer, Ernst, 1874–1945. 2. Culture—Philosophy—History—20th century. I. Hamlin, Cyrus. II. Krois, John Michael. b3216.c34s96 2004 306%.092—dc22 2004041987 A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library. The paper in this book meets the guidelines for permanence and durability of the Committee on Production Guidelines for Book Longevity of the Council on Library Resources. 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 This content downloaded from All use subject to https://about.jstor.org/terms Contents Preface ix Introduction xi Abbreviations of Works by Ernst Cassirer xxix Part One: Culture as a Philosophical Concept 1. The Variety of Symbolic Worlds and the Unity of Mind Oswald Schwemmer 3 2. Cassirer’s Concept of a Philosophy of Human Culture Donald Phillip Verene 19 3. The Modern Concept of Culture as Indicator of a Metaphysical Problem Ernst Wolfgang Orth 28 4. Cassirer’s Symbolic Theory of Culture and the Historicization of Philosophy Louis Dupré 35 This content downloaded from All use subject to https://about.jstor.org/terms vi Contents Part Two: Problems in the Philosophical Interpretation of Culture 5. ‘‘Art’’ and ‘‘Science’’ in The Philosophy of Symbolic Forms Michael Holquist 49 6. The Subject of Culture Steve Lofts 61 7. Styles of Change: Ernst Cassirer’s Philosophical Writing Barbara Naumann 78 Part Three: Comparative Studies 8. Bakhtin and Cassirer: The Philosophical Origins of Carnival Messianism Brian Poole 99 9. From Culture to Politics: The ‘‘Aufhebung’’ of Ethics in Ernst Cassirer’s Political Philosophy in Comparison with the ‘‘Political Theology’’ of Ernst Kantorowicz Enno Rudolph 117 10. Speaking of Symbols: Affinities between Cassirer’s and Jung’s Theories of Language Paul Bishop 127 11. ‘‘Eine zarte Differenz’’: Cassirer on Goethe on the Symbol R. H. Stephenson 157 12. Goethe as Model for Cultural Values: Ernst Cassirer’s Essay on Thomas Mann’s Lotte in Weimar Cyrus Hamlin 185 Part Four: Cassirer’s Philosophical Outlook 13. The Missing Core of Cassirer’s Philosophy: Homo Faber in Thin Air Gideon Freudenthal 203 14. The Davos Disputation and Twentieth-Century Philosophy Michael Friedman 227 15. Why Did Cassirer and Heidegger Not Debate in Davos? John Michael Krois 244 This content downloaded from All use subject to https://about.jstor.org/terms Contents vii Appendix: How the Cassirer Papers Came to Yale Vincent Giroud 263 List of Contributors 271 Index 274 This content downloaded from All use subject to https://about.jstor.org/terms This content downloaded from All use subject to https://about.jstor.org/terms Preface The plan to publish this volume originated at a conference held at Yale University, 4–6 October 1996, under the title ‘‘Philosophy of Culture and Symbolic Forms: New Perspectives on Ernst Cassirer.’’ The essays in this book written by Dupré, Freudenthal, Holquist, Krois, Naumann, Orth, Poole, and Schwemmer are revised versions of papers selected from that conference. The other contributions were written subsequently, expressly for this project. About half are written by philosophers and the other half by literary theorists. All of them deal with various aspects of Ernst Cassirer’s theory of culture. The conference from which this volume evolved was sponsored by the De- partments of German and Philosophy at Yale University, the Ernst Cassirer Publication Fund of Yale University Press, the Beinecke Rare Book and Manu- script Library, the Joseph Slifka Center for Jewish Life at Yale, and the Goethe Institute Boston. Thanks are due to these institutions for their assistance in making that event possible. Funding for the publication of this volume was provided by the Ernst Cassirer Publication Fund, for which the editors are sincerely grateful. ix This content downloaded from All use subject to https://about.jstor.org/terms This content downloaded from All use subject to https://about.jstor.org/terms
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