Ernst Cassirer on Form and Technology

1. Front Matter

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2. Introduction

   1. Introduction

      • Aud Sissel Hoel, Ingvild Folkvord

      Pages 1-12

3. Form and Technology

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 13-13

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   2. Form and Technology

      • Ernst Cassirer

      Pages 15-53

   3. The Age of Complete Mechanization

      • John Michael Krois

      Pages 54-61

4. Contemporary Readings

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 63-63

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   2. Technics of Thinking

      • Aud Sissel Hoel

      Pages 65-91

   3. The Struggle of Titans - Ernst Jünger and Ernst Cassirer: Vitalist and Enlightenment Philosophies of Technology in Weimar Germany

      • Frederik Stjernfelt

      Pages 92-112

   4. Technology as Destiny in Cassirer and Heidegger Continuing the Davos Debate

      • Hans Ruin

      Pages 113-138

   5. Technical Activity as a Symbolic Form Comparing Money and Language

      • Jean Lassègue

      Pages 139-160

   6. The Power of Voice Ernst Cassirer and Bertolt Brecht on Technology, Expressivity and Democracy

      • Ingvild Folkvord

      Pages 161-180

   7. ‘Representation’ and ‘Presence’ in the Philosophy of Ernst Cassirer

      • Marion Lauschke

      Pages 181-198

   8. Cultural Poetics and the Politics of Literature

      • Frederik Tygstrup, Isak Winkel Holm

      Pages 199-213

   9. Cave Art as Symbolic Form

      • Mats Rosengren

      Pages 214-232

   10. Failures of Convergence

       • Dennis M. Weiss

       Pages 233-257

5. Back Matter

   Pages 259-270

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Ernst Cassirer's thought-provoking essay Form and Technology (1930) ascribes to technology a new dignity as a genuine tool of the mind in equal company with language and art. Translated here into English it is accompanied by critical essays that explore its current relevance.

• democracy
• Germany
• philosophy

• Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim, Norway

  Aud Sissel Hoel, Ingvild Folkvord

WILSON MCCLELLAND DUNLAVEY Friedrich Naumann Scholar, Humboldt University of Berlin, Germany ISAK WINKEL HOLM Associate Professor of Comparative Literature, University of Copenhagen, Denmark JOHN MICHAEL KROIS was First Senior Professor of Philosophy, Humboldt University of Berlin, Germany JEAN LASSÈGUE Philosopher attached to the French Scientific Research Council (CNRS), France MARION LAUSCHKE Research Associate at the Collegium for the Advanced Study of Picture Act and Embodiment, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Germany MATS ROSENGREN Professor of Rhetoric at Södertörn University, Stockholm, Sweden HANS RUIN Professor of Philosophy at Södertörn University, Stockholm, Sweden FREDERIK STJERNFELT Full Professor at the Center for Semiotics, Aarhus University, Denmark FREDERIK TYGSTRUP Director of the Copenhagen Doctoral School in Cultural Studies and an Associate Professor of Comparative Literature, University of Copenhagen, Denmark DENNIS M. WEISS Professor of Philosophy, York College of Pennsylvania, USA

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