Cassirer Studies

Dear readers,

a new section of Cassirer Studies, called «Supplementa», was inaugurated in December 2019. We are sorry to be late in updating our website, but the precarious circumstances diverted our attention.

«Supplementa» provides parallel texts containing the transcription of posthumous works in the original language and their translation into Italian. The first issue Zur Objektivität der Ausdrucksfunktion/ Sull’oggettività della funzione espressiva is a fragmentary text by Ernst Cassirer, accompanied by a critical apparatus containing essential notes, and an introduction to the story of the manuscript and the editor’s project.

The topic “Objektivität der Ausdrucksfunktion” is addressed also elsewhere in Cassirer’s Nachlass and fits the journal’s interests perfectly, as far as it aims at bringing Cassirer to life again and gaining new respect for his thought.

The reference to a number of author’s theories, from Hume to the Vienna Circle, gives the text a systematic character and Cassirer’s conclusions strong determination, in that the question about the other’s mind unfolds gradually, as it turns from logic to phenomenology and philosophy of symbolic forms.