Ernst Cassirer on Form and Technology
ISBN: 9781137007773
Platform/Publisher: SpringerLink / Palgrave Macmillan UK
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Subjects: Palgrave Religion & Philosophy Collection;

Ernst Cassirer's thought-provoking essay Form and Technology (1930) ascribes to technology a new dignity as a genuine tool of the mind in equal company with language and art. Translated here into English it is accompanied by critical essays that explore its current relevance.


WILSON MCCLELLAND DUNLAVEY Friedrich Naumann Scholar, Humboldt University of Berlin, GermanyISAK WINKEL HOLM Associate Professor of Comparative Literature, University of Copenhagen, DenmarkJOHN MICHAEL KROIS was First Senior Professor of Philosophy, Humboldt University of Berlin, GermanyJEAN LASSÈGUE Philosopher attached to the French Scientific Research Council (CNRS), France MARION LAUSCHKE Research Associate at the Collegium for the Advanced Study of Picture Act and Embodiment, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, GermanyMATS ROSENGREN Professor of Rhetoric at Södertörn University, Stockholm, SwedenHANS RUIN Professor of Philosophy at Södertörn University, Stockholm, SwedenFREDERIK STJERNFELT Full Professor at the Center for Semiotics, Aarhus University, DenmarkFREDERIK TYGSTRUP Director of the Copenhagen Doctoral School in Cultural Studies and an Associate Professor of Comparative Literature, University of Copenhagen, Denmark DENNIS M. WEISS Professor of Philosophy, York College of Pennsylvania, USA
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