Ernst Cassirer on Form and Technology

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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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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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