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 Humboldt University of Berlin
surface form: University of Berlin

University of Leipzig
University of Marburg
employer Columbia University
Humboldt University of Berlin
surface form: University of Berlin

University of Hamburg
University of Oxford
Yale University
ethnicGroup Jewish
fieldOfWork cultural philosophy
history of philosophy
philosophy
semiotics
fullName Ernst Cassirer self-linksurface differs
surface form: 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
Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz
surface form: 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 Neo-Kantianism
surface form: 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
Prussia
surface form: 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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Hans Reichenbach doctoralAdvisor Ernst Cassirer
Ernst Cassirer fullName Ernst Cassirer self-linksurface differs
this entity surface form: Ernst Alfred Cassirer
Neo-Kantianism hasKeyFigure Ernst Cassirer
Hermann Cohen influenced Ernst Cassirer
Reichenbach influencedBy Ernst Cassirer
subject surface form: Hans Reichenbach
Susanne Langer influencedBy Ernst Cassirer
Substance and Function author Ernst Cassirer
Substance and Function isEarlyWorkOf Ernst Cassirer
Language and Myth author Ernst Cassirer
An Essay on Man author Ernst Cassirer
The Myth of the State author Ernst Cassirer
Kant’s Life and Thought author Ernst Cassirer
The Problem of Knowledge author Ernst Cassirer
Toni Cassirer spouse Ernst Cassirer
Goethe Prize notableLaureate Ernst Cassirer
Leo Strauss doctoralAdvisor Ernst Cassirer
Universitas Studii Coloniensis hasNotableFaculty Ernst Cassirer
this entity surface form: Ernst Cassirer (historically associated with Cologne)
Hans Blumenberg influencedBy Ernst Cassirer
Jacob Burckhardt influenced Ernst Cassirer
Marburg School associatedWith Ernst Cassirer
Marburg School hadKeyFigure Ernst Cassirer
Paul Natorp influenced Ernst Cassirer