Ernst Cassirer
Ernst Cassirer · Philosophy & Social Sciences
Neo-Kantian philosopher of symbolic forms
1874, Breslau, Germany (now Wrocław, Poland) — 1945, New York City, USA
Germany · Sweden · USA
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Cassirer was a leading neo-Kantian philosopher whose three-volume The Philosophy of Symbolic Forms argued that humans grasp reality through symbolic systems such as language, myth, art and science, extending Kant's critique of reason into a broader philosophy of culture. He fled Nazi Germany, teaching in Britain, Sweden and the United States. He was Jewish.
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Neo-Kantian philosopher of symbolic forms
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