Seminar “The relationship between sensory perception and mythical space and time in Cassirer’s Philosophy of Symbolic Forms”

Seminar “The relationship between sensory perception and mythical space and time in Cassirer’s Philosophy of Symbolic Forms”

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25 Oct 2023
Location
st. Miklukho-Maklaya, 10/2, room 415
About the event

On 25 October at 16:00 p.m. (Moscow time)

The lecture will examine the properties of sensory perception described in Gestalt psychology (Wertheimer, Koffka). The direct connection will be demonstrated between these properties of perception and the basic categories of the mythical world, as they are shown by Cassirer in the second volume of the Philosophy of Symbolic Forms.

Speaker: Irit Katsur, Doctor of Hebrew University of Jerusalem.

Heidegger’s revision of Cassirer’s mythological form will be examined. Heidegger’s main criticism is that, in presenting the world of myth, Cassirer uses the terms of neo-Kantian epistemology. In light of this, it turns out that myth is not a direct being (the world), but a conceptual construction. Why does Cassirer continue to use the old terminology? In what sense does he remain a neo-Kantian?

Participants: professors, graduate students, masters and students.

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