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Steve Lofts

The King's University College
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    Department of Philosophy
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  •  42
    Eidos and Eidolon: The Problem of Beauty and Art in the Dialogues of Plato
    with Ernst Cassirer
    In S. G. Lofts & Ernst Cassirer (eds.), The Warburg Years : Essays on Language, Art, Myth, and Technology, Yale University Press. pp. 214-243. 2017.
  •  34
    Husserl, Heidegger, Cassirer
    Revue Philosophique De Louvain 92 (4): 570-584. 1994.
    Ernst CassirerHusserl and Continental Philosophers, MiscMartin Heidegger
  •  26
    Cassirer and Heidegger: The Cultural-Event The Auseinandersetzung of Thinking and Being
    In Sebastian Luft & J. Tyler Friedman (eds.), The Philosophy of Ernst Cassirer: A Novel Assessment, De Gruyter. pp. 233-258. 2015.
    20th Century German Philosophy
  •  18
    Form and Technology
    with Ernst Cassirer
    In S. G. Lofts & Ernst Cassirer (eds.), The Warburg Years : Essays on Language, Art, Myth, and Technology, Yale University Press. pp. 272-316. 2017.
  •  17
    Rudolf Bernet, Iso Kern et Eduard Marbach, An introduction to Husserlian phenomenology** Elisabeth Ströker, Husserl's transcendental phenomenology
    Revue Philosophique De Louvain 92 (2-3): 362-366. 1994.
    Husserl: Introductions and Overviews
  •  15
    The Oxford Handbook of Japanese Philosophy ed. by Bret W. Davis
    Philosophy East and West 72 (1): 1-6. 2022.
    The Oxford Handbook of Japanese Philosophy is by all counts an ambitious work. Its primary goal is to provide the reader with a foundational framework in which to engage interpretively the tradition of Japanese philosophy. It would be impossible to summarize, let alone do justice to, the thirty-six rich and illuminating chapters written by many of the most prominent scholars in the field from Japan, Europe, Australia, and North America.Navigating between the "violence of inclusion" that would re…Read more
    The Oxford Handbook of Japanese Philosophy is by all counts an ambitious work. Its primary goal is to provide the reader with a foundational framework in which to engage interpretively the tradition of Japanese philosophy. It would be impossible to summarize, let alone do justice to, the thirty-six rich and illuminating chapters written by many of the most prominent scholars in the field from Japan, Europe, Australia, and North America.Navigating between the "violence of inclusion" that would reduce the philosophically other to our own conception of philosophy and the "violence of exclusion" that would fail to recognize what we share with this other, Bret Davis...
    Japanese Buddhist PhilosophyJapanese Confucian PhilosophyShinto and Kokugaku PhilosophyTopics in Jap…Read more
    Japanese Buddhist PhilosophyJapanese Confucian PhilosophyShinto and Kokugaku PhilosophyTopics in Japanese Philosophy
  •  14
    Mikkel Borch-Jacobsen, The Emotional Tie: Psychoanalysis; Mimesis and Affect
    Revue Philosophique De Louvain 92 (2-3): 396-397. 1994.
    20th Century German Philosophy
  •  14
    The Kantian Elements in Wilhelm von Humboldt’s Philosophy of Language
    with Ernst Cassirer
    In S. G. Lofts & Ernst Cassirer (eds.), The Warburg Years : Essays on Language, Art, Myth, and Technology, Yale University Press. pp. 101-129. 2017.
  •  13
    Ernst Cassirer: A "Repetition" of Modernity
    with John Michael Krois
    State University of New York Press. 2000.
    Provides a reading of Cassirer's philosophy of symbolic forms in the context of contemporary continental philosophy
    Ernst Cassirer
  •  12
    The Concept of Symbolic Form in the Construction of the Human Sciences
    with Ernst Cassirer
    In S. G. Lofts & Ernst Cassirer (eds.), The Warburg Years : Essays on Language, Art, Myth, and Technology, Yale University Press. pp. 72-100. 2017.
  •  12
    Mythic, Aesthetic, and Theoretical Space
    with Ernst Cassirer
    In S. G. Lofts & Ernst Cassirer (eds.), The Warburg Years : Essays on Language, Art, Myth, and Technology, Yale University Press. pp. 317-333. 2017.
  •  11
    John Richardson, Existential Epistemology. A Heideggerian Critique of the Cartesian Project
    Revue Philosophique De Louvain 91 (92): 666-671. 1993.
    Martin Heidegger
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    Une nouvelle approche de la philosophie d'Ernst Cassirer
    Revue Philosophique De Louvain 90 (4): 523-538. 1992.
    Ernst Cassirer
  •  10
    Julian Pefanis, Heterology and the Postmodern: Bataille, Baudrillard, and Lyotard
    Revue Philosophique De Louvain 91 (92): 682-684. 1993.
    Jean-François Lyotard
  •  10
    Penser l'Autre: psychanalyse lacanienne et philosophie
    with Philipp W. Rosemann
    Revue Philosophique De Louvain 92 (1): 82-97. 1994.
  •  7
    Index
    with Ernst Cassirer
    In S. G. Lofts & Ernst Cassirer (eds.), The Warburg Years : Essays on Language, Art, Myth, and Technology, Yale University Press. pp. 377-385. 2017.
  •  7
    The Form of the Concept in Mythical Thinking
    with Ernst Cassirer
    In S. G. Lofts & Ernst Cassirer (eds.), The Warburg Years : Essays on Language, Art, Myth, and Technology, Yale University Press. pp. 1-71. 2017.
  •  6
    Slavoj Žižek, Enjoy your symptom! Jacques Lacan in Hollywood and out
    Revue Philosophique De Louvain 92 (2-3): 366-367. 1994.
    Zizek: PsychoanalysisZizek, Misc
  •  6
    Contents
    with Ernst Cassirer
    In S. G. Lofts & Ernst Cassirer (eds.), The Warburg Years : Essays on Language, Art, Myth, and Technology, Yale University Press. 2017.
  •  6
    Glossary of German terms
    with Ernst Cassirer
    In S. G. Lofts & Ernst Cassirer (eds.), The Warburg Years : Essays on Language, Art, Myth, and Technology, Yale University Press. pp. 363-376. 2017.
  •  6
    Language and the Construction of the World of Objects
    with Ernst Cassirer
    In S. G. Lofts & Ernst Cassirer (eds.), The Warburg Years : Essays on Language, Art, Myth, and Technology, Yale University Press. pp. 334-362. 2017.
  •  5
    Ernst Cassirer: Scientific Knowledge and the Concept of Man by Seymour W. Itzkoff (review)
    Isis 91 429-430. 2000.
    History of Science
  •  5
    Ernst Cassirer in Japanese Philosophy
    Journal of Transcendental Philosophy 2 (1): 143-165. 2021.
    The primary goal of this paper is not to argue for the “influence” of Cassirer, but rather to make known the reception of Cassirer in Japanese philosophy, illustrate the interconnection between Cassirer’s critique of culture and that of Japanese philosophy, and hopefully spark interest in what might be a fruitful dialog between Cassirer scholars and those working in Japanese philosophy. Historically, the paper defines Japanese philosophy and makes known its engagement with Western philosophy and…Read more
    The primary goal of this paper is not to argue for the “influence” of Cassirer, but rather to make known the reception of Cassirer in Japanese philosophy, illustrate the interconnection between Cassirer’s critique of culture and that of Japanese philosophy, and hopefully spark interest in what might be a fruitful dialog between Cassirer scholars and those working in Japanese philosophy. Historically, the paper defines Japanese philosophy and makes known its engagement with Western philosophy and the Marburg school of neo-Kantianism and its project of a critique of culture during its own self-development. Systematically, the paper points to the possible interconnection between Cassirer’s critique of culture and that of Japanese philosophy and makes the case for a mutually productive dialog between Cassirer scholars and those working in Japanese philosophy. Implicitly, the paper attempted to show that an engagement with Japanese philosophy from the perspective of a critique of culture forces us to question the Western dichotomy between philosophy and religion and the importance of this for the further development of a non-Eurocentric critique of culture. And by extension, that a critique of culture must be cognitive of the historicity of the culture from which it speaks.
    Japanese PhilosophyErnst Cassirer
  •  5
    The Problem of the Symbol and Its Place in the System of Philosophy
    with Ernst Cassirer
    In S. G. Lofts & Ernst Cassirer (eds.), The Warburg Years : Essays on Language, Art, Myth, and Technology, Yale University Press. pp. 254-271. 2017.
  •  5
    A. Vergote, Psychanalyse. L'homme et ses destins
    Revue Philosophique De Louvain 92 (4): 621-624. 1994.
  •  5
    George Kovacs, The Question of God in Heidegger's Phenomenology
    with Pascale Seys
    Revue Philosophique De Louvain 91 (89): 159-163. 1993.
    Martin Heidegger
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    Bakhtin e Cassirer: o evento e a máquina
    Bakhtiniana 11 (1): 77-98. 2016.
    European Philosophy
  •  3
    Translators’ introduction
    with Ernst Cassirer
    In S. G. Lofts & Ernst Cassirer (eds.), The Warburg Years : Essays on Language, Art, Myth, and Technology, Yale University Press. 2017.
  •  3
    The Warburg Years : Essays on Language, Art, Myth, and Technology (edited book)
    Yale University Press. 2013.
    Jewish German philosopher Ernst Cassirer was a leading proponent of the Marburg school of neo-Kantianism. The essays in this volume provide a window into Cassirer’s discovery of the symbolic nature of human existence—that our entire emotional and intellectual life is configured and formed through the originary expressive power of word and image, that it is in and through the symbolic cultural systems of language, art, myth, religion, science, and technology that human life realizes itself and at…Read more
    Jewish German philosopher Ernst Cassirer was a leading proponent of the Marburg school of neo-Kantianism. The essays in this volume provide a window into Cassirer’s discovery of the symbolic nature of human existence—that our entire emotional and intellectual life is configured and formed through the originary expressive power of word and image, that it is in and through the symbolic cultural systems of language, art, myth, religion, science, and technology that human life realizes itself and attains not only its form, its visibility, but also its reality. Thought and being are set in opposition and united in genuine correspondence by the symbolic strife between them that Cassirer calls _Auseinandersetzung,_ which determines the ethical relationship of the self to the other.
    Ernst Cassirer
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    The Philosophy of Symbolic Forms, Volume 3: Phenomenology of Cognition
    with Ernst Cassirer
    Routledge. 2020.
    "In his Phenomenology of Cognition, Cassirer provides a comprehensive and systematic account of the dynamic process involved in the whole of human culture as it progresses from the world of myth and its feeling of social belonging to the highest abstractions of mathematics, logic and theoretical physics. Cassirer engages with the most sophisticated and cutting-edge work in fields ranging from ethnology to classics, egyptology and assyriology to ethology, brain science and psychology to logic, ma…Read more
    "In his Phenomenology of Cognition, Cassirer provides a comprehensive and systematic account of the dynamic process involved in the whole of human culture as it progresses from the world of myth and its feeling of social belonging to the highest abstractions of mathematics, logic and theoretical physics. Cassirer engages with the most sophisticated and cutting-edge work in fields ranging from ethnology to classics, egyptology and assyriology to ethology, brain science and psychology to logic, mathematics and theoretical physics. His command of philosophy, literature, and the arts is superb. Echoing his work on Kant, Cassirer begins ThePhilosophy of Symbolic Formswith the problem posed by the meaning of being for philosophy since Plato. But Cassirer also shows that this problem gains new significance with Kant and with the development of modern culture. Cassirer weaves his conception of the development of knowledge into a broadly Kantian and German idealist dynamic-historical conception of significance and of experience that refuses to accept a fundamental opposition between literary, philosophical and scientific culture. In consequence of his great vision grounded in careful reflection and argument, Cassirer's systematic conception of the Copernican cosmopolitan-cosmological revolution is still philosophically and scientifically unmatched in contemporary philosophy on both sides of the Atlantic and of the Pacific." - Pierre Keller, Professor of Philosophy, University of California, Riverside, USA. This new translation makes Cassirer's seminal work available to a new generation of scholars. Each volume includes an introduction by Steve Lofts, a foreword by Peter Gordon, a glossary of key terms, and an index. Steve Lofts is Professor of Philosophy at King's University College, Canada. He is the translator of Cassirer's The Logic of the Cultural Sciences and The Warburg Years : Essays on Language, Art, Myth, and Technology.
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