<history of philosophy, biography> german neo-Kantian
philosopher (1874-1945) who supposed that the fundamental
categories of human thought are genuinely a priori, yet develop
historically. In his massive Die Philosophie der symbolischen
Formen (The Philosophy of Symbolic Forms) (1929) (vol. 1-4),
Cassirer suggested that these basic concepts are most clearly
revealed in the cultural symbols of language, science, and
mythology. Recommended Reading: Ernst Cassirer, The Philosophy
of the Enlightenment, tr. by J. Pettegrove and F. Koelin
(Princeton, 1968) and Ernst Cassirer: A 'Repetition' of
Modernity, ed. by Steve G. Lofts and Michael Krois (SUNY, 2000).
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