Krytyka kultury jako teoria racjonalności. Wokół Filozofii form symbolicznych Ernsta Cassirera
Cultural critic as a theory of rationality. On the Philosophy of symbolic forms by Ernst Cas-sirer

Summary/Abstract: The publication of the first, comprehensive Polish translation of Ernst Cassirer’s Philo-sophy of symbolic forms raises the question about the validity of the research project presented in this work. The author of the paper claims that Cassirer created a coherent research program that can be read as a very interesting theory of the crisis of culture understood as the funda-mental moment of the manifestation of human rationality, without which human culture-for-ming activity would not be possible at all. From this perspective, the crisis of culture — one of the leading threads in the humanities and social thought in the period between the First and Second World Wars — is not identical with the decline of Western culture, but should be treated as a starting point for a critical theory of rationality, which can also be applied within the perspective of the contemporary philosophy of culture.

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