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