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Symbol and Reality

Studies in the philosophy of Ernst Cassirer

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  • © 1956

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  1. Carl H. Hamburg
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Table of contents (8 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages I-XI
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  2. Introduction

    • Carl H. Hamburg
    Pages 1-9

  3. Symbol, Reality and the History of Philosophy

    • Carl H. Hamburg
    Pages 10-43

  4. Reality and Symbolic Forms

    • Carl H. Hamburg
    Pages 44-57

  5. The Symbol Concept I

    • Carl H. Hamburg
    Pages 58-74

  6. The Symbol Concept II

    • Carl H. Hamburg
    Pages 75-87

  7. The Modalities of the Symbol Concept

    • Carl H. Hamburg
    Pages 88-113

  8. Semiotic and Philosophy of Symbolic Forms

    • Carl H. Hamburg
    Pages 114-144

  9. The Semiotic Range of Philosophy

    • Carl H. Hamburg
    Pages 145-165

  10. Back Matter

    Pages 166-172
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About this book

Since prefaces, for the most part, are written after a book is done, yet face the reader before he gets to it, it is perhaps not surprising that we usually find ourselves addressed by a more chastened and qualifying author than we eventually encounter in the ensuing pages. It is, after all, not only some readers, but the writer of a book himself who reads what he has done and failed to do. If the above is the rule, I am no exception to it. The discerning reader need not be told that the following studies differ, not only in the approaches they make to their unifying subject-matter, but also in their precision and thus adequacy of presentation. In addition to the usual reasons for this rather common shortcoming, there is an another one in the case of the present book. In spite of its comparative brevity, the time-span between its inception and termination covers some twenty years. As a result, some (historical and epistemological) sections reflect my preoccupation with CASSI­ RER'S eady works during student days in Germany and France. When, some ten years later, CASSIRER in a letter expressed "great joy" and anticipation for a more closely supervised con­ tinuation of my efforts (which, because of his untimely death, never came to pass), he gave me all the encouragement needed to go to work on a critical exposition of his "symbolic form" con­ cept.

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Symbol and Reality

  • Book Subtitle: Studies in the philosophy of Ernst Cassirer

  • Authors: Carl H. Hamburg

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-9461-7

  • Publisher: Springer Dordrecht

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

  • Copyright Information: Martinus Nijhoff, The Hague, Netherlands 1956

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-94-011-8667-4Published: 01 January 1956

  • eBook ISBN: 978-94-011-9461-7Published: 06 December 2012

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: 172

  • Number of Illustrations: 1 b/w illustrations

  • Topics: Epistemology, Metaphysics, History of Philosophy

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