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Differences in symbolic representation : Goodman's signification and Cassirer's Darstellung
P. 245-254
- It is well known that Nelson Goodman referred affirmatively to Ernst Cassirer's philosophy of culture several times in his writings. However, a closer look reveals not only hardly any traces of an extensive confrontation. It also becomes apparent that Goodman and Cassirer conceive of symbolic representation in a fundamentally different way: Whereas Goodman assumes an instrumental use of symbols or signs that reference individual objects, Cassirer focuses on how elements of experience acquire a general meaning through their relations to one another and to the whole nexus of consciousness. Cassirer's approach has little affinity with Goodman's signification and 20th century semiotics in general, but rather adopts the concept of Darstellung from philosophy around 1800, which lends it a renewed relevance. [Publisher's text]
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Cassirer studies : XIII/XIV, 2020/2021-
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DOI: 10.1400/286532
ISSN: 2038-6575
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In this issue
- Ernst Cassirer's post-war afterlife
- Ernst Cassirer's afterlife : reinventing consciuosness as finctional matrix
- Cassirer, Heidegger and the cognitive cciences
- Cassirer in France : 1903-1948 : mapping Cassirer's influences and receptions
- Ernst Cassirer's influence on the philosophy of Wilfrid Sellar
- System or form : Cassirer and Ortega's debate on the nature of knowledge and history
- Normativity of symbolic forms as objective moral standards in culture
- Notes on recent rethinking of Cassirer's philosophy
- Not to give up anything of what is human : the History of problems [Problemgeschichte] and the Phenomenology of history in Hans Blumenberg and Ernst Cassirer
- Castoriadis, an unconscious follower of Cassirer?
- Differences in symbolic representation : Goodman's signification and Cassirer's Darstellung
- Metaphysical considerations of Cassirer's philosophy : an unexplored heritage
- Michel Foucault, lecteur de Cassirer
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