Ernst Cassirer

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Ernst Cassirer was a German Neo-Kantian philosopher best known for his work on symbolic forms and the philosophy of culture.

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instanceOf Neo-Kantian philosopher
academic
author
human
philosopher
academicDegree doctorate in philosophy
causeOfDeath heart attack
countryOfCitizenship German Empire
Germany
Sweden
United States of America
dateOfBirth 1874-07-28
dateOfDeath 1945-04-13
educatedAt University of Berlin NERFINISHED
University of Leipzig NERFINISHED
University of Marburg NERFINISHED
employer Columbia University
University of Berlin NERFINISHED
University of Hamburg NERFINISHED
University of Oxford NERFINISHED
Yale University
ethnicGroup Jewish
fieldOfWork cultural philosophy
history of philosophy
philosophy
semiotics
fullName Ernst Alfred Cassirer
influenced Clifford Geertz
Hans-Georg Gadamer
Isaiah Berlin
Nelson Goodman
Peter Gay
Susanne Langer
influencedBy Friedrich Albert Lange
Hermann Cohen
Immanuel Kant
Johann Gottfried Herder
Leibniz
Wilhelm Dilthey
knownFor interpretation of Kant
philosophy of culture
theory of symbolic forms
work on myth and political symbolism
languageOfWorkOrName English
German
mainInterest aesthetics
epistemology
history of ideas
philosophy of culture
philosophy of science
symbolic forms
movement Marburg school of Neo-Kantianism
notableIdea culture as a system of symbolic forms
functional concept of objectivity
humans as animal symbolicum
myth as a symbolic form
philosophy as critique of culture
notableWork An Essay on Man
Kant’s Life and Thought
Language and Myth
Substance and Function
The Individual and the Cosmos in Renaissance Philosophy
The Myth of the State
The Philosophy of Symbolic Forms
The Problem of Knowledge
philosophicalTradition Neo-Kantianism
philosophy of culture
placeOfBirth Breslau
German Empire
Kingdom of Prussia
placeOfDeath New York City
United States of America
positionHeld professor of philosophy
rector of the University of Hamburg
religion Judaism
spouse Toni Cassirer

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