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"Jewish German philosopher Ernst Cassirer was a leading proponent of the Marburg school of neo-Kantianism. The essays in this volume provide a window into Cassirer's discovery of the symbolic nature of human existence, that our entire emotional and intellectual life is configured and formed through the originary expressive power of word and image, that it is in and through the symbolic cultural systems of language, art, myth, religion, science, and technology that human life realizes itself and attains not only its form, its visibility, but also its reality. Thought and being are set in opposition and united in genuine correspondence by the symbolic strife between them that Cassirer calls Auseinandersetzung, which determines the ethical relationship of the self to the other"--Publisher's description

Foreword / Peter E. Gordon -- Translator's Preface / Steve G. Lofts -- Translator's Introduction: The Question Concerning the Human -- Life, Form, and Freedom: On the Way to an Open Cosmopolitanism / Steve G. Lofts -- Translator's Acknowledgements / Steve G. Lofts -- Preface -- Introduction and the Framing of the Problem -- Volume 1: Toward a Phenomenology of the Linguistic Form -- 1. The Problem of Language in the History of Philosophy -- 2. Language in the Phase of Sensible Expression -- 3. Language in the Phase of Intuitive Expression -- 4. Language as the Expression of Conceptual Thinking: The Form of Linguistic Concept and Class Formation -- 5. Language and the Expression of the Pure Forms of Relation: The Sphere of Judgment and the Concepts of Relation -- Glossary of German Terms -- Index

Cover -- Half Title -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Foreword -- Translator's Preface -- Translator's Introduction: A Transcendental Critique of Mythical-Religious Consciousness: Identity-Thinking, the Natural Attitude, and an Immanence in the Sacred Sense of Life -- Translator's Acknowledgments -- Preface -- Introduction: The Problem of a "Philosophy of Mythology" -- Part One: Myth as Thought-Form -- I The Character and Basic Tendency of Mythical Object Consciousness -- II The Individual Categories of Mythical Thinking