Philosophy of Symbolic Forms. Volume 3. Phenomenology of Knowledge

E. Kassirer (1874-1945) - German Philosopher Neokantian. Its main labor was the philosophy of symbolic forms (1923-1929) This outstanding philosophical work is a number of interrelated historical and systematic studies on the language, myth, religion and scientific knowledge that continue and develop the main ideas of the preceding Cassirera work. The general concept for him is no longer the knowledge, and the "spirit", identified with the "spiritual culture" and "culture as a whole, as opposed to" nature ". The means by which all the design of the spirit takes place, the cassier is in the sign, symbol, or "symbolic form". The symbolic function believes the Cassier, the essence of human consciousness opens - its ability to exist through the synthesis of opposites.
The meaning of the historical process of the Castirer sees in the "selflessness of man", the problem of the philosophy of culture - in identifying invariant structures remaining unchanged during historical development