The Logic of the Cultural Sciences: Five Studies (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780300081152)

This new translation of The Logic of the Cultural Sciences (formerly entitled The Logic of the Humanities) makes Ernst Cassirer's classic study, long out of print, available to English readers. A German Jew living in exile at the beginning of the Second World War, Cassirer wrote this book-one of his clearest and most concise-in response to the crises besetting his era. It represented to him a rethinking and completion of his magnum opus The Philosophy of Symbolic Forms. S. G. Lofts's translation stays close to the original German and accurately reflects the echoes of the philosophical debates of Cassirer's day. In the book's five linked studies, Cassirer considers the intellectual structure of the disciplines we commonly refer to as the humanities. He defines and justifies the basic philosophical perspective of the philosophy of symbolic forms, and he contributes a wealth of ideas to continuing debates about culture and what is unique in human nature.

Author: Ernst Cassirer
ISBN-10: 0300081154
ISBN-13: 9780300081152
Publisher: Yale University Press
Language: English
Published: 10/01/2000
Pages: 190
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.47lbs
Size: 8.00h x 5.25w x 0.42d