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Overview

Ernst Cassirer was affiliated with Columbia University in the United States. Their research primarily focused on the fields of Arts and Humanities, with an emphasis on Philosophy and History and Philosophy of Science. Additional subfields included Literature and Literary Theory, Language and Linguistics, and Experimental and Cognitive Psychology.

Their scholarly work addressed topics such as:

  • Nietzsche, Schopenhauer, and Hegel
  • Philosophy and Historical Thought
  • Philosophy, Science, and History
  • German Literature and Culture Studies
  • Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy
  • German Social Sciences and History
  • Philosophical Thought and Analysis

Ernst Cassirer published papers in various academic journals, including:

  • "A disputa de Davos entre Ernst Cassirer e Martin Heidegger," 2020, Ekstasis Revista de Hermenêutica e Fenomenologia
  • "O lugar de Kepler na história intelectual europeia," 2020, Cadernos de Filosofia Alemã Crítica e Modernidade
  • "Philosophy of the Symbolic," 2021, Journal of Transcendental Philosophy
  • "A propósito del a propósito del concepto de nación. Réplica al artículo de Bruno Bauch," 2021, Stoa
  • "Determinismo e Indeterminismo na física moderna: estudos históricos e sistemáticos do problema da causalidade (Prefácio e Capítulo 1)," 2021, Cadernos de Filosofia Alemã Crítica e Modernidade

Frequent publication venues comprised:

  • Cadernos de Filosofia Alemã Crítica e Modernidade
  • Ekstasis Revista de Hermenêutica e Fenomenologia
  • Journal of Transcendental Philosophy
  • Stoa
  • Revue de métaphysique et de morale

Frequent collaborators included:

  • Martín Heidegger
  • Karin Kukkonen
  • Der Roman
  • Ein Geschichtsphilosophischer Versuch Über Die Formen
  • Giordano Bruno

Cassirer's published books were mainly produced by Felix Meiner Verlag, featuring titles such as:

  • Philosophie der symbolischen Formen. Zweiter Teil. Das mythische Denken (2023)
  • Substanzbegriff und Funktionsbegriff (2023)
  • Philosophie der symbolischen Formen. Erster Teil. Die Sprache (2023)
  • Individuum und Kosmos in der Philosophie der Renaissance. Die Platonische Renaissance in England und die Schule von Cambridge (2023)
  • Das Erkenntnisproblem in der Philosophie und Wissenschaft der neueren Zeit. Zweiter Band (2023)
  • Zur Einsteinschen Relativitätstheorie (2023)
  • Freiheit und Form (2023)
  • Das Erkenntnisproblem in der Philosophie und Wissenschaft der neueren Zeit. Dritter Band (2023)
  • Vorlesungen und Vorträge zu Kant (2022)
  • Das Erkenntnisproblem in der Philosophie und Wissenschaft der neueren Zeit. Vierter Band (2023)
  • Aufsätze und Kleine Schriften 1902-1921 (2023)

Additional publications appeared through Literatur- und Kulturforschung, Yale University Press, and eBooks, with works such as "Formen des Ganzen" (2022), "An Essay on Man" (2021), and ": " (2020) respectively.

Best Publications

  • The philosophy of symbolic forms

    Ernst Cassirer;Ralph Manheim;Charles William Hendel;John Michael Krois

  • The Philosophy of the Enlightenment

    Ernst Cassirer

  • An Essay on Man: An Introduction to a Philosophy of Human Culture

    Ernst Cassirer

  • The myth of the state

    Ernst Cassirer

  • Philosophie der symbolischen Formen

    Ernst Cassirer

  • Language and Myth

    Ernest Cassirer

  • Das Erkenntnisproblem in der Philosophie und Wissenschaft der neueren Zeit.

    Ernst Cassirer

  • Individuum Und Kosmos in der Philosophie der Renaissance

    Ernst Cassirer

  • The Individual and the Cosmos in Renaissance Philosophy

    Ernst Cassirer

  • Substance and Function, and Einstein's Theory of Relativity

    Ernst Cassirer;William Curtis Swabey;Marie Collins Swabey

  • Language and Myth.

    Kurt H. Wolff;Ernst Cassirer;Susanne K. Langer

  • Substanzbegriff und Funktionsbegriff : Untersuchungen über die Grundfragen der Erkenntniskritik

    Ernst Cassirer

  • The concept of group and the theory of perception

    Ernst Cassirer

  • Kant's life and thought

    Ernst Cassirer;James Haden;Stephan Körner

  • The question of Jean-Jacques Rousseau

    Ernst Cassirer

  • The Platonic renaissance in England

    Ernst Cassirer

  • The Renaissance philosophy of man

    D. J. B. Hawkins;Ernst Cassirer;Paul Oskar Kristeller;John Herman Randall

  • The Philosophy of the Enlightenment.

    Ernst Cassirer;F. C. A. Koelln;J. P. Pettegrove

  • Structuralism in Modern Linguistics

    Ernst A. Cassirer

  • Das Erkenntnisproblem in der Philosophie und Wissenschaft der neueren Zeit Von Hegels Tod bis zur Gegenwart(1832-1932)

    Ernst Cassirer

  • Freiheit und Form : Studien zur deutschen Geistesgeschichte

    Ernst Cassirer

  • Philosophie der Symbolischen Formen

    Gustav Mueller;Ernst Cassirer

Frequent Co-Authors

Martin Heidegger
Martin Heidegger Philipp University of Marburg
Wilfrid Sellars
Wilfrid Sellars University of Pittsburgh

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