Ernst Cassirer (July 28, 1874 – April 13, 1945) was a German
Jewish philosopher. Coming out of the Marburg tradition of neo-
Kantianism, he developed a philosophy of culture as a theory of
symbols founded in a phenomenology of knowledge. His son, Heinz
Cassirer, was also a Kantian scholar. Cassirer was elected to a
chair of philosophy at the newly-founded University of Hamburg
in 1919, where he lectured until 1933. After leaving Germany, he
lectured at Oxford University 1933–1935, at Gothenburg
University 1935–1941, at Yale University 1941–1943, and lastly
at Columbia University 1943–1945 until his death. |This
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expanding it.| An Essay on Man (1944)  - An Essay on Man: An
Introduction to a Philosophy of Human Culture - No former age
was ever in such a favorable position with regard to the sources
of our knowledge of human nature. Psychology, ethnology,
anthropology, and history have amassed an astonishingly rich and
constantly increasing body of facts. Ou