The Philosophy of Symbolic Forms Volume 1: Language

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An outstanding contribution to epistemology and to the human power of abstraction.F.I.G. Rawlins Nature The Symbolic Forms has long been considered by many who knew it in the original German as the greatest of Ernst Cassirers works. Into it he poured all the resources of his vast learning about language and myth religion art and sciencethe various creative symbolizing activities and constructions through which mankind has expressed itself and given intelligible objective form to the human experience.