Narrow your search
Listing 1 - 7 of 7
Sort by
Cassirer's Metaphysics of symbolic forms
Authors: ---
ISBN: 1281740748 9786611740740 0300127170 9780300127171 9781281740748 0300083319 9780300083316 Year: 2001 Publisher: New Haven Yale University Press

Loading...
Export citation

Choose an application

Bookmark

Abstract

This book-the first commentary on Ernst Cassirer's Metaphysics of Symbolic Forms-provides an introduction to the metaphysical views that underlie the philosopher's conceptions of symbolic form and human culture. Thora Ilin Bayer focuses on the meaning of Cassirer's claim that philosophy is not itself a symbolic form but the thought around which all aspects of human activity are seen as a whole. Underlying the symbolic forms are Cassirer's two metaphysical principles, spirit (Geist) and life, which interact to produce the reality of the human world. Bayer shows how these two principles of Cassirer's early philosophy are connected with the phenomenology of his later philosophy, which centers on his conception of "basis phenomena"-self, will, and work.

Cassirer's metaphysics of symbolic forms : a philosophical commentary
Authors: ---
ISBN: 0300083319 9780300083316 Year: 2001 Publisher: New Haven (Conn.): Yale university

Loading...
Export citation

Choose an application

Bookmark

Abstract


Multi
Tussen God en gekte : een studie over zekerheid en symbolisering in psychose en geloven
Author:
ISBN: 9023911547 Year: 2001 Publisher: Zoetermeer Boekencentrum

Representation in Religion, : Studies in Honor of Moshe Barasch.
Authors: --- --- ---
ISSN: 15709434 ISBN: 9004119396 9004379126 9789004119390 Year: 2001 Volume: 89 Publisher: Leiden, Boston: Brill,

Loading...
Export citation

Choose an application

Bookmark

Abstract

The role of representation in religion is complex. While often perceived as essential, it is also associated in many traditions with the liability of idolatry and provokes iconoclasm. The essays in this volume examine the nuances of representation in religion and the debate concerning its place across a variety of traditions from the three Abrahamic faiths, to those of antiquity and the East. This volume consists of presentations made at an international conference held in honor of Moshe Barasch, art historian and cultural critic, who has done much to elucidate the light which representation and religion shed on each other. It pays tribute to Barasch by expanding the base of understanding and insight he has erected. It should be of interest to students of religion and of art history.


Multi
Chaucer and language
Authors: --- ---
ISBN: 1282859315 9786612859311 0773569200 9780773569201 9781282859319 0773521828 9780773521827 Year: 2001 Publisher: Montreal Ithaca [N.Y.] McGill-Queen's University Press

Loading...
Export citation

Choose an application

Bookmark

Abstract

Every poet arrives at some sense of how language works. Chaucer's engagement, like that of the greatest literary figures, goes beyond the brilliant, skilful use of language as a tool of expression, beyond what we usually call "talent." He brings to the creative use of signification a sophisticated philosophical questioning of the very nature of language, of how we know and how we signify. Chaucer and Language argues that Chaucer's work points to answers to these questions, emphasizing that in various ways Chaucer made language itself the subject of his writing. The polyvalent nature of signs and the ambiguity this makes possible are discussed as one aspect of Chaucer's use of language as subject, as is irony. Chaucer's extension of the concept of language to include relics and the Eucharist, his exploitation of equivocation and the lie, and the semiotic dimensions of his poetic themes are also treated. These issues derive directly from the long tradition of mediaeval sign theory and anticipate the major issues of the modern theory of signs that is semantics.

Mutabor : Lingua grafica; major reference work for image language.
Authors: ---
ISBN: 3931126595 9783931126599 Year: 2001 Publisher: Berlin : Die Gestalten Verlag,

Listing 1 - 7 of 7
Sort by