Ernst Cassirer on form and technology: contemporary readings

Cassirer's thought-provoking essay .Form and Technology. (1930) considers thetheoretical work performed by material instruments and, in so doing, it ascribes to technology a new dignity as a genuine tool of the mind in equal companywith language and art. Germinating in this essay, we find an ambitious program for a new kind of philosophy of technology that resonates with contemporary approaches focusing on material apparatuses, relational and performative processes, and the embodied, embedded, and enacted nature of perception and cognition. Cassirer's approach, however, is unique in the way that it integrates logical concerns, championed by scientifically oriented philosophers, with the concerns of the historical and cultural sciences. The current revival of interestin Cassirer's thinking has precisely to do with its potential for bridging unproductive intellectual gaps. .Form and Technology., especially, provides a rich resource for current attempts, across disciplines, to develop new conceptual and ontological frameworks. Cassirer's classic essay, translated here into English for the first time, is accompanied by ten critical essays that explore its current relevance. INDICE: List of Figures.Acknowledgements.Notes on the Contributors.Introduction; .A.S.Hoel. & .I.Folkvord.PART I: FORM AND TECHNOLOGY.Form and Technology; .E.Cassirer.Translated by W.McClelland Dunlavey & J.M Krois.The Age of Complete Mechanization;. J.M.Krois.PART II: CONTEMPORARY READINGS.Technics of Thinking; .A.S.Hoel.The Struggle of Titans - Ernst Jünger and Ernst Cassirer: Vitalist and Enlightenment Philosophies of Technology in Weimar Germany; .F.Stjernfelt.Technology as Destiny in Cassirer and Heidegger: Continuing the Davos Debate; .H.Ruin.Technical Activity as a Symbolic Form: Comparing Money and Language; .J.LassÈgue.The Power of Voice: Ernst Cassirer and Bertolt Brecht on Technology, Expressivity and Democracy; .I.Folkvord.'Representation' and 'Presence' in the Philosophy of Ernst Cassirer; .M.Lauschke.Translated by W.McClelland Dunlavey.Cultural Poetics and the Politics of Literature; .F.Tygstrup. &. I.W.Holm.Translated by L.Utne.Cave Art as Symbolic Form; .M.Rosengren.Failures of Convergence; .D.M.Weiss.Index.

• ISBN: 978-0-230-36547-6
• Editorial: Palgrave Macmillan
• Encuadernacion: Cartoné
• Páginas: 272
• Fecha Publicación: 18/05/2012
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