Thora Ilin Bayer
- Published in print:
- 2001
- Published Online:
- October 2013
- ISBN:
- 9780300083316
- eISBN:
- 9780300127171
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Yale University Press
- DOI:
- 10.12987/yale/9780300083316.003.0001
- Subject:
- Philosophy, Metaphysics/Epistemology
This book is a survey of the papers that led to the publication of a volume of twelve of Cassirer's essays and lectures from the last decade of his life, Symbol, Myth, and Culture. These were pieces ...
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This book is a survey of the papers that led to the publication of a volume of twelve of Cassirer's essays and lectures from the last decade of his life, Symbol, Myth, and Culture. These were pieces in which Cassirer summarized and introduced to new audiences, in Sweden and principally in the United States, his conception of culture and symbolic form. Most prominent among the papers remained two manuscripts marked as an unpublished text of a fourth volume to his three-volume Philosophy of Symbolic Forms, published in the 1920s and translated into English in the 1950s. The first of these three volumes concerns language, the second, mythical thought, and the third is a phenomenology of knowledge, showing the genesis of scientific thought from pretheoretical expressive and representational functions of consciousness.Less
This book is a survey of the papers that led to the publication of a volume of twelve of Cassirer's essays and lectures from the last decade of his life, Symbol, Myth, and Culture. These were pieces in which Cassirer summarized and introduced to new audiences, in Sweden and principally in the United States, his conception of culture and symbolic form. Most prominent among the papers remained two manuscripts marked as an unpublished text of a fourth volume to his three-volume Philosophy of Symbolic Forms, published in the 1920s and translated into English in the 1950s. The first of these three volumes concerns language, the second, mythical thought, and the third is a phenomenology of knowledge, showing the genesis of scientific thought from pretheoretical expressive and representational functions of consciousness.
- Published in print:
- 2007
- Published Online:
- March 2013
- ISBN:
- 9780226629308
- eISBN:
- 9780226629322
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of Chicago Press
- DOI:
- 10.7208/chicago/9780226629322.003.0019
- Subject:
- Philosophy, Metaphysics/Epistemology
This book, a self-made map of the world, was unveiled in the first week of the ninth month of the third millennium. It took years to complete and in every respect it was the joint work of the author ...
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This book, a self-made map of the world, was unveiled in the first week of the ninth month of the third millennium. It took years to complete and in every respect it was the joint work of the author and his former student Ole Michael Jensen, a Dane whose first degrees are in the theory and practice of land surveying. So close was their cooperation that they did not report their findings under their individual names but under the amalgamated imprint of Gunnael Jensson. When this work was well under way, the curator Luciano Escanilla graciously invited the authors to participate in the Uppsala International Contemporary Art Biennial Eventa 5 in Sweden. They were elated, for here was a rare opportunity to present their research in a setting where the artificial boundaries between the contemporary art world, the university, and the church were all but erased. This circumstance was crucial, for it fit nicely into the authors' own conception that even though knowledge by definition is an exercise in translation, no translation can ever be perfect.Less
This book, a self-made map of the world, was unveiled in the first week of the ninth month of the third millennium. It took years to complete and in every respect it was the joint work of the author and his former student Ole Michael Jensen, a Dane whose first degrees are in the theory and practice of land surveying. So close was their cooperation that they did not report their findings under their individual names but under the amalgamated imprint of Gunnael Jensson. When this work was well under way, the curator Luciano Escanilla graciously invited the authors to participate in the Uppsala International Contemporary Art Biennial Eventa 5 in Sweden. They were elated, for here was a rare opportunity to present their research in a setting where the artificial boundaries between the contemporary art world, the university, and the church were all but erased. This circumstance was crucial, for it fit nicely into the authors' own conception that even though knowledge by definition is an exercise in translation, no translation can ever be perfect.
