Ernst Cassirer#Ernst
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#Ernst
Ernst Cassirer · 1874–1945
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Who this is
“He redefined the human being not as the rational animal but as the symbolic one — and then watched, and explained, how manufactured myth can burn a civilization down.”
The big idea, in the book's words:
“Human beings never touch raw reality; we live inside webs of symbols — language, myth, art, religion, science — each a complete way of building a world.”
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