Cassirer's understanding of culture. Philosophy of Symbolic Forms as Philosophy of Culture

Abstract

Cassirer's understanding of culture is in this essay analyzed on the basis of his entire philosophy, i.e. concerning its central position in its composition. The concept of culture represents systematic unity of Cassirer's project of philosophy of symbolic forms, understood as philosophy of culture. In this context concept of culture is analyzed on the basis of its relationship with the concept of symbolic forms, i.e. concerning the possibility of their adequate theoretical understanding, which is given solely as philosophy of culture.