Ernst Cassirer:
symbol, science and
culture
In cooperation with The Edelstein Center, The
Hebrew University of Jerusalem and the Van Leer Jerusalem
Institute.
May 18-19, 1998: Tel Aviv University, Gilman
Building, Room 496
May 20-21, 1998: Van Leer Jerusalem Institute,
Jerusalem
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PROGRAM
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Monday, 18 May Tel Aviv University, Gilman Building,
Room 496
- Greetings: Marcelo
Dascal
Dean of Faculty of Humanities, Tel
Aviv University
Session I: Symbolic Forms
Chair: Gideon Freudenthal
Yehuda Elkana: "The Historical Sociology of
Symbolic Forms"
John Michael Krois: "The 'Prototype and Model' of
Symbolism: Nature or Culture?"
Gabriel Motzkin: "Cassirer's Philosophy of
Symbolic Forms"
Session II: Metaphysics
Chair: Joseph Mali
Donald Phillip Verene: "Cassirer's
Metaphysics"
Dominic Kaegi: Substance and Function: Cassirer's
Theory of Concepts
Christoph Schmidt: "Ernst Cassirer's Theory of
Subjectivity as a Model for the Postmodern Return to the Subject"
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- Tuesday, 19 May
- Tel Aviv University, Gilman Building, Room 496
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Session III: Philosophy
- Chair: Anat Matar
Enno Rudolph: "Symbol and History - Cassirer's
Thesis on 'Historical Time'"
Ashraf Noor: "Cassirer's Critique of Husserlian
Phenomenology"
Michael Roubach: "The Limits of Order"
Session IV: Philosophy of Science
Chair: Rivka Feldhay
Karl-Norbert Ihmig: "Duhem, Cassirer, and the
Continuity of Scientific Development"
Thomas Rykman: "Einstein, Cassirer, and General
Covariance - Then and Now"
Jean Seidengart: "Mathematics and Reality in
Cassirer's Philosophy of Modern Physics"
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- Wednesday, 20 May
- Van Leer Jerusalem Institute
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Session V: The Scientific Context
- Chair: Yemima Ben Menahem
Fabian Capeilleres: "The Mathematical Structure
of Cassirer's Philosophy: The 'Complex System' of Symbolic Forms
Alexandre Metraux: "The Cassirer-Goldstein
Connection and the Pathology of the symbolic Consciousness"
Daniel Dor: "From Symbolic Forms to Lexical
Schematics: Where Modern Linguistics and Cassirer's Philosophy Start to
Converge"
Session VI: History of Philosophy
Chair: Mara Beller
Josef Schwartz: "Ernst Cassirer on Cusanus:
Between Conjectural Knowledge and religious Pluralism"
Meir Buzaglo: "On the Use and Misuse of the
Copernican revolution"
Almut Brukstein: "Stories of Origin and Work on
Myth: Cohen, Cassirer, and the Blumenberg Debate"
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- Thursday, 21 May
- Van Leer Jerusalem Institute
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Session VII: The Cultural Context
- Chair: Moshe Barash
Fania Oz-Salzberger: Cassirer's enlightenment and
its Recent Critics: Is reason Out of Season?
Itta Shedletzky: '(The Return of?) Pandora'.
Goethe Between Ernst Cassirer and Friedrich Gundolf in the German-Jewish
Context of Weimar Culture
Barbara Naumann: The Genesis of Symbolic Forms:
Basic Phenomena in ernst Cassirer's Works
Charlotte Scholl-Glass: "Das Wesen des Symbols":
Aby Warburg's Late Comments on Symbol
Session VIII: Myth and Politics
Chair: Gabriel Motzkin
Jeffrey Andrew Barash: "Ernst Cassirer's theory
of Myth and the Ethico-Political Dimension of His Debate with Martin
Heidegger"
Joseph Mali: "The Myth of the State Revisited:
Ernst Cassirer and Modern Political Theory"
Gideon Freudenthal: The Hero of
Enlightenment
Reception
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