Cassirer Studies

We are happy to announce the second volume of «Supplementa», Vorarbeiten: Ausdrucksfunktion/ Studi preparatori: funzione espressiva (XI/XII-2018/2019) which follows closely the first issue of The Manuscript of Expression, Zur Objektivität der Ausdrucksfunktion.
As Giulio Raio observes in his introduction to the volume, espousing Christian Möckel thesis that the Ms is a «Vorarbeit» of the Ms Zur Obkektivität der Ausdrucksfunktion, the “material contiguity” of the Blättern is a strong argument for the interconnection of the two Manuscripts of Expression. This interconnection bearing on the question of the dating of each Ms, the years 1935-1936 or earlier for the Vorarbeiten, the years 1937-1938 for Zur Objektivität.
The redactional title Ausdrucksphänomen und >Wiener Kreis< confirms the general impression that the Vorarbeiten stand as «a radical moment in Cassirer’s “recovery” […] of the objectivity of the expressive function», along with Krois and Möckel’s thesis that it is part of the preparatory work for Schlick’s planned and never completed essay.