The Origins of the Philosophy of Symbolic Forms: Kant, Hegel, and Cassirer

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139 Index Aretino, Pietro, 80 Aristotle, 69, 73, 101, 106, 111; on difference between poetry and history, 33–34; physics of, 8–9; relation of logic and metaphysics, 6–8; theory of imitation, 23 art. See symbolic forms Ayer, Alfred Jules, xviii basis phenomena, 66–70 Bergson, Henri, xvi, 61 Berkeley, George, 62 Berlin, Isaiah, 31 Borgia, Cesare, 80 Burckhardt, Jacob, 79, 81 Byron, George Gordon, 62 Cassirer, Ernst Alfred: biographical details, xvi–xvii, 13, 104; coining of term “symbolic form,” 12–14; and Heidegger’s review of Mythical Thought, 49–53; lifelong interest in Goethe, xiii; meeting with Heidegger at Davos, xiv, 5, 21, 95, 104, 108–9; and neoKantianism , xi–xvi; and Warburg Library, 13, 33, 62, 77, 110 works: — Axel Hägerström: Eine Studie zur swedischen Philosophie der Gegenwart, 103 — “Der Begriff der symbolischen Form im Aufbau der Geisteswissenschaften,” 12 — “Die Begriffsform im mythischen Denken,” 31 — “The Concept of Philosophy as a Philosophical Problem,” 103 — “Critical Idealism as a Philosophy of Culture,” 62, 110 — “Descartes’ Critique of Mathematical and Natural Scientific Knowledge,” xi — Descartes: Lehre-Persönlichkeit-Wirkung, 75 — “Descartes, Leibniz, and Vico,” 76 — Determinism and Indeterminism in Modern Physics, xiv, 75 — Einstein’s Theory of Relativity, 13, 67 — An Essay on Man, xvi–xvii, 5, 38, 58–59, 66; on harmony in culture, 96–101; on human freedom, 104–5, 107; and philosophy of symbolic forms, xii, xiv, 20, 56, 83; and Plato’s Republic, 91; relation to Pope’s Essay, 89; and self-knowledge, xviii, 15 — “Form und Technik,” 56 — Freiheit und Form, 83, 104 — Individual and Cosmos in Renaissance Philosophy, 84 — “The Influence of Language upon the Development of Scientific Thought,” 8 — “Judaism and the Modern Political Myths,” 104, 113–14 — Kant’s Life and Thought, 15 — Language and Myth, xviii, 27, 57 — Leibniz’ System in seinen wissenschaftlichte Grundlagen, xi, 32 — The Logic of the Cultural Sciences, 11, 75, 83, 104 — “The Myth of the State” (Fortune magazine), 104 — “The Myth of the State” (Princeton lecture), 104 — The Myth of the State, xii, xvi, xviii, xix, 101–2, 104, 107; and concept of philosophy, 105; criticism of Freud, 35; on Heidegger, 108; and Nazi state, 114–15; and symbolic form, 14; theory of technology, 56 — “Neo-Kantianism,” xiv — The Philosophy of the Enlightenment, 75, 84, 89 — The Philosophy of Symbolic Forms, xii, xiv, xvii, 12, 89; critique of culture, 75, 77; Kant’s schema in, 5; not a system, 55–56 — vol. 1, Language, 19–20, 27, 31; number of languages treated, 22; as phenomenology, 38 — vol. 2, Mythical Thought, 20, 27, 35, 39; Heidegger’s review of, 49; on myth and religion, 97; and political myth, 113; and Vico, 32 — vol. 3, The Phenomenology of Knowledge, 20, 61, 84; concept of phenomenology, xv, 38, 45, 75, 77, 84; Linienzug example, 14 — vol. 4, The Metaphysics of Symbolic Forms, 61, 74; critique of Heidegger in, 50; theory of basis phenomena, 66, 84; and True as the whole, 16, 45 — The Platonic Renaissance in England and the Cambridge School, 75 — The Problem of Knowledge (vols. 1 and 2), xi — The Problem of Knowledge: Philosophy, Science, and History since Hegel, 31 — “Reflections on the Concept of Group and the Theory of Perception,” 78 — “‘Spirit’ and ‘Life’ in Contemporary Philosophy,” 61, 107 — “Structuralism in Modern Linguistics,” 105 — Substance and Function, xiv, 11–12; and Aristotelian logic, 6; and Hegel’s Begriff, 36; as related to phenomenology of knowledge, 19–21, 45, 55, 75 — “Das Symbolproblem und seine Stellung im System der Philosophie,” 13 — “Transcendentalism,” xv — “Truth,” xv — “Zur Logik des Symbolbegriffs,” 55 Cassirer, Toni Bondy, xvii, 50, 104 Cicero, 32, 90 Cohen, Hermann, xi, xiv, xv concepts: cultural, 11, 79–81; function, 6–12, 36–37, 59, 75–76; natural, 11, 79; substance, 6–12 Dasein, 49–53 Descartes, René, xi, xiii, 16, 67, 72; opposite to Vico, 31, 76–77 Dewey, John, xvii Dilthey, Wilhelm, 77 economics. See symbolic forms Einstein, Albert, 13 expressive function, 23–24, 48, 52–53 Fichte, Johann Gottleib, 5 Ficino, Marsilio, 80 Freud, Sigmund, 35–36, 90 Galileo, 8–9 Gawronsky, Dimitry, 13 Gelb, Adhémar, 55 Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von, 12, 108; and basis phenomena, 67–69; source for Cassirer’s thought, xiii Goldstein, Kurt, 55 Hägerström, Axel, 103 Hamann, Johann Georg, 31 Hartmann, Nicolai, 49 Hegel, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich, 32, 57, 96– 97, 101; conception of phenomenology, 5, 16, 18, 36–38, 47, 83–85; dictum that the True is the whole, 16, 45, 59; and...