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Ernst Cassirer on form and technology
Abstrakt
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.
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Introduction
pp.1-12
Form and technology
pp.15-53
The age of complete mechanization
pp.54-61
Technics of thinking
pp.65-91
The struggle of titans - Ernst Jünger and Ernst Cassirer
vitalist and enlightenment philosophies of technology in weimar Germany
pp.92-112
The power of voice Ernst Cassirer and Bertolt Brecht on technology, expressivity and democracy
pp.161-180
Cave art as symbolic form
pp.214-232
Failures of convergence
pp.233-257
Publication details
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Ort: New York
Year: 2012
Seiten: 270
ISBN (hardback): 978-1-349-34945-6
ISBN (digital): 978-1-137-00777-3
Referenz:
Sissel Hoel Aud, Folkvord Ingvild (2012) Ernst Cassirer on form and technology. New York, Palgrave Macmillan.