Table of Contents

1. Metabasis and Translation: Ernst Cassirer and Walter Benjamin on Language Theory by Barbara Naumann (Zurich) 2. Myth and Religion in Cassirer's Philosophy of Symbolic Forms by Louis Dupre (Yale) 3. Ernst Cassirer and Oswald Spengler: Two Philosophies of Culture in the Light of a Political Polemic by Dina Gusejnova (Cambridge) 4. Cassirer, Warburg, and the Irrational by Edward Skidelsky (Oxford) 5. 'Eine geistige Urform der geschichtlichen Erkenntnis'? Cassirer and Bachofen on the Symbol by Paul Bishop (Glasgow) 6. The Symbolization of Culture: Nietzsche in the Footsteps of Goethe, Schiller, Schopenhauer, and Wagner by Martine Prange (Groningen) 7. Schiller's 'Concrete' Theory of Culture: Reflections on the 250th Anniversary of His Death by R.H. Stephenson (Glasgow)

About the Author

Paul Bishop