Ernst CassirerBirth Chart
28/07/1874 unknown time
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Wrocław
Poland
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Ernst Cassirer was a German philosopher associated with the neo-Kantian tradition of the Marburg School and one of the central figures in twentieth-century philosophy of culture. Trained in law, literature and philosophy at German universities, he became a full professor in Hamburg, where he held academic leadership until the rise of Nazism. His intellectual work combined Kantian critique with a comprehensive theory of symbolic forms — symbol, myth, language and art — aiming to account for both scientific knowledge and cultural and aesthetic practices.
His best-known work, The Philosophy of Symbolic Forms, argues that the various modes of human experience are mediated by symbolic systems that structure knowledge and social life. In writings such as An Essay on Man and The Myth of the State, Cassirer examined the relations among reason, myth and politics, offering interpretations of the rise of totalitarianism and the limits of scientism.
Persecuted by the Nazi regime because of his Jewish origins, he went into exile in Sweden and later in the United States, where he taught at Yale and Columbia. His legacy influenced philosophers and theorists in the human sciences and remains relevant to debates about language, culture and epistemology; much of his manuscript material is preserved in American institutions.
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