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The Philosophy of Symbolic Forms

work by Cassirer

Also known as: “Die Philosophie der symbolischen Formen”

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In Ernst Cassirer
(1923–29; The Philosophy of Symbolic Forms), he examined the mental images and the functions of the mind that underlie every manifestation of human culture.
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