An essay on man

Cassirer Ernst

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Yale University Press, New Haven

1944

237 Pages

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An essay on man

An introduction to a philosophy of human culture

Ernst Cassirer

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Cassirer, E. (1944). An essay on man: An introduction to a philosophy of human culture, Yale University Press, New Haven.

Table of Contents

Preface

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11-13

What is man?

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15-86

The crisis in man's knowledge of himself

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15-40

A clue to the nature of man

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41-43

From animal reactions to human responses

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44-61

The human world of space and time

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62-78

Facts and ideals

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79-86

Man and culture

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87-286

The definition of man in terms of human culture

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87-96

Myth and religion

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97-141

Language

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142-175

Art

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176-216

History

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217-260

Science

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261-277

SumMary and conclusion

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278-286

Index

287-294

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E. Cassirer, an essay on man

1947

Kaufmann Fritz

Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 8/2

Translations

Versuch über den Menschen: Einführung in eine Philosophie der Kultur

1990

Ernst Cassirer

Frankfurt am Main, Fischer

Versuch über den Menschen: Einführung in eine Philosophie der Kultur

1990

Ernst Cassirer

Frankfurt am Main, Fischer

Was ist der Mensch?: Versuch einer Philosophie der menschlichen Kultur

1960

Ernst Cassirer

Stuttgart, Kohlhammer

Re-editions

An essay on man: an introduction to a philosophy of human culture

2006

Ernst Cassirer

Hamburg, Meiner