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Ernst Bloch und Ernst Cassirer

Die Kultur als dynamischer Bedeutungsraum des Menschen 

Orth, Ernst Wolfgang

Zeitschrift für Kulturphilosophie, Bd. 2008 (2008), Iss. 1: S. 95–110

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Orth, Ernst Wolfgang

Abstract

Ernst Cassirer and Ernst Bloch are considered from the standpoint of the philosophy of culture as the object of comparative study. Instead of considering possible mutual correlative influences, their work is considered with regard to a possible systematic comparison. Bloch's Materialism, like Cassirer's Philosophy of symbolic Forms, can be read as a kind of philosophy of media, if we take »medium« to mean the dimension in which meaning is generated. Against this background Cassirer and Bloch make use of different means to thematize the mediality of culture.