Ernst Cassirer and the Autonomy of Language

Informationen zum Autor Gregory Moss is a lecturer in philosophy at Clemson University. Klappentext Gregory S. Moss examines the central arguments in Ernst Cassirer's first volume of the Philosophy of Symbolic Forms to show how Cassirer defends language as an autonomous cultural form, and how he borrows the concept of the "concrete universal" from G. W. F. Hegel in order to develop a concept of cultural autonomy. Zusammenfassung Gregory S. Moss examines the central arguments in Ernst Cassirer’s first volume of the Philosophy of Symbolic Forms to show how Cassirer defends language as an autonomous cultural form, and how he borrows the concept of the “concrete universal” from G. W. F. Hegel in order to develop a concept of cultural autonomy. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. Hegelian Psycholinguistics 2. The Copy Theory of Language 3. Kant's Transcendental Turn 4. Humboldt's Philosophy of Language 5. Towards the Schematism: Hegel's Concrete Universal 6. The Concrete Universal: Symbolic Form 7. Mystical Alternatives: Heidegger and Wittgenstein 8. On the Way to Cultural Symbolism 9. Non-Human Communication 10. The A priori Synthetic Imagination 11. Symbolic Prägnanz 12. The Grammar of the Symbolic Function 13. The Logical Function of Language 14. Form as Movement: Language as Concrete Universal 15. Beyond Language: The Serial Form of Scientific Law 16. Language: the Vehicle of Self-Knowledge

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• Autori: Gregory S Moss, Gregory S. Moss, Moss Gregory S.
• Editore: Lexington Books
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Copertina rigida
• Pubblicazione: 12.11.2014
• EAN: 9780739186220
• ISBN: 978-0-7391-8622-0
• Pagine: 274
• Categorie: Saggistica > Filosofia, religione > Filosofia: tematiche generali, opere di consultazione; Scienze umane, arte, musica > Scienze linguistiche e letterarie > Linguistica generale e comparata; Philosophy of Language, PHILOSOPHY / History & Surveys / Modern, PHILOSOPHY / Epistemology, PHILOSOPHY / Language, Psycholinguistics, Western philosophy from c 1800, Philosophy: epistemology & theory of knowledge, Western Philosophy, From C 1900 -, Philosophy: epistemology and theory of knowledge, Psycholinguistics and cognitive linguistics