The Symbolic Forms has long been considered the greatest of Cassirer's works. Into it he poured all the resources of his vast learning about language and myth, religion, art, and science-the various creative symbolizing activities and constructions through which man has expressed himself and given intelligible objective form to his experience.

The Philosophy of Symbolic Forms

by Ernst Cassirer

Published 10 September 1965
"An outstanding contribution to epistemology and to the human power of abstraction."-F.I.G. Rawlins, Nature

The Symbolic Forms has long been considered by many who knew it in the original German as the greatest of Ernst Cassirer's works. Into it, he poured all the resources of his vast learning about language and myth, religion, art, and science-the various creative symbolizing activities and constructions through which mankind has expressed itself and given intelligible objective form to the human experience.