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by Ernst Cassirer, Helene Deutsch, Walter Lippmann, John Stuart Mill, Auguste Comte, Princess Marie Bonaparte, Derk Bodde
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Ernst Cassirer

Ernst Cassirer was a German philosopher. Trained within the Neo-Kantian Marburg School, he initially followed his mentor Hermann Cohen in attempting to supply an idealistic philosophy of science; after Cohen's death, he developed a theory of symbolism, and used it to expand phenomenology of knowledge into a more general philosophy of culture. He is one of the leading 20th century advocates of philosophical idealism. At Hamburg Cassirer discovered the Library of the Cultural Sciences founded by Aby Warburg. Warburg was an art historian who was particularly interested in ritual and myth as sources of surviving forms of emotional expression. In Philosophy of Symbolic Forms (1923–1929) Cassirer argues that man (as he put it in his more popular 1944 book Essay on Man) is a "symbolic animal". Whereas animals perceive their world by instincts and direct sensory perception, humans create a universe of symbolic meanings. Cassirer is particularly interested in natural language and myth. He argues that science and mathematics developed from natural language, and religion and art from myth.

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"Walter Lippman's classic account of how the press threatens democracy whenever it has an agenda other than the free flow of ideas." -- Publisher.

How the series evolves

beginning
#1 Rousseau, Kant, Goethe
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Tolstoy and China
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Books in this Series

#1

Rousseau, Kant, Goethe

Ernst Cassirer
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The therapeutic process, the self, and female psychology

Helene Deutsch
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Liberty and the news

Walter Lippmann
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"Walter Lippman's classic account of how the press threatens democracy whenever it has an agenda other than the free flow of ideas." -- Publisher.

Auguste Comte and Positivism

John Stuart Mill, Auguste Comte
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"Although Auguste Comte is conventionally acknowledged as one of the founders of sociology and as a key representative of positivism, few new editions of his writings have been published in the English language in this century. He has become virtually dissociated from the history of modern positivism and the most recent debates about it. Gertrud Lenzer maintains that the work of Comte is, for better or for worse, essential to an understanding of the modern period of positivism. Three significant additions have been made to this edition: a new introduction by the editor, a new postscript - taken from the twelfth Auguste Comte Memorial Trust Lecture - also by the editor, as well as Comte's "Conclusion of the Whole Work of the System of Positive Polity" taken from the fourth volume of his seminal work."--BOOK JACKET.

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Princess Marie Bonaparte
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Tolstoy and China

Derk Bodde
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