Publication Details
E. Cassirer and the Landscape as a Multisensory and Spatio-Temporal Synthesis
(Original title: E. Cassirer a krajina ako multisenzorická a časovo-priestorová syntéza)
Filozofia, 80 (2025), 5, 740 - 753.Type of work: Original Articles: The Human Being in the Coordinates of Symbolic Structures
Publication language: Slovak
Abstract
The study focuses on the issue of landscape developed in twentieth-century German philosophy. In addition to Georg Simmel and Joachim Ritter, Ernst Cassirer also devoted himself to this topic. The aim is to prove that Cassirer is part of a line of thinking drawing mainly on the aesthetics of Immanuel Kant and landscape painting. At the same time his theory of landscape reveals interdisciplinary overlaps between aesthetics, art, and the natural sciences. Cassirer’s theory is similar to Simmel’s, but for Simmel, landscape is a creation of contemporary man, while for Cassirer it is a sign of man as such, only with different meanings in historical periods. Landscape is then perceived as a multisensory and time-space synthesis.
Keywords
symbolic ability, perception of expression, Cassirer, Uexküll, Simmel, landscape
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