Cassirer Studies

We are happy to inform you that the second issue of Cassirer Studies has just come out with the title “Theory of Figuration”.
Each contribution brings a new perspective to bear on the studies concerning Cassirer’s three functions Ausdruck, Darstellung, Bedeutung, which still stands as a boundary topic between the Philosophy of Symbolic Forms and the theories of representation in general, as they all tend towards a “theory of figuration” as such.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

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FABIEN CAPEILLÈRES, “K” for “Kunst”. Cassirer’s pages on Art for PdsF IV. With a note on Francis Bacon

ARTICLES

WERNER HOFMANN, Meine Wege zu Cassirer. Eine Skizze
ANGÈLE KREMER MARIETTI, La philosophie comme science du symbolique
STEVE G. LOFTS, “Who are we?”. Toward an Ontology of Sense
CARMEN METTA, A cassirerian-kleean casuistry of occurrences of “Form” and “Figure”

 ABSTRACTS

The first number of Cassirer Studies sketches a picture of the present relation between the Philosophy of Symbolic Forms and Iconology, by examining new texts and posthumous materials which come on top of the classical literature concerning the Cassirer-Warburg dialogue.
The consolidated and historicized cultural image of their relationship, emblematically reflected by the “structure” of the Bibliothek Warburg, is awakened by this unprecedented topography, which accounts for their strenuous effort to construct a common line of thought: the mythical/symbolical thought, between the permanence of myth (Cassirer) and the survival of primitive paganism (Warburg); the conception of the “work”, layered on different structural niveaux; the interpretation of Giordano Bruno.

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TABLE OF CONTENTS

DONALD PHILLIP VERENE, Foreword

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ABY WARBURG, Giordano Bruno, ed. by Maurizio Ghelardi
and Giovanna Targia
ABY WARBURG-ERNST CASSIRER: Correspondence, ed. by
Maurizio Ghelardi

ARTICLES

FABIEN CAPEILLÈRES, Art, estétique et Geistesgeschichte.
À propos des relations entre Warburg, Cassirer et Panofsky
JOHN MICHAEL KROIS, Cassirer’s “Symbolic Values” and Philosophical
Iconology
ANDREA PINOTTI, Symbolic form and symbolic formula: Cassirer
and Warburg on morphology (between Goethe and Vischer)
ENNO RUDOLPH, Bild und Symbol

SEMINAR

Warburg, Cassirer and Giordano Bruno “thinker through images”.
Papers by LORENZO BIANCHI, MAURIZIO GHELARDI, RICCARDO
NALDI-FABIO SPERANZA, JEAN SEIDENGART