Ernst Cassirer on Form and Technology Contemporary Readings [Hardcover]

Ernst Cassirer's thought-provoking essay Form and Technology (1930) ascribes to technology a new dignity as a genuine tool of the mind in equal company with language and art. Translated here into English it is accompanied by critical essays that explore its current relevance.List of Figures Acknowledgements Notes on the Contributors Introduction; A.S.Hoel & I.Folkvord PART I: FORM AND TECHNOLOGY Form and Technology; E.Cassirer Translated by W.McClelland Dunlavey & J.M Krois The Age of Complete Mechanization; J.M.Krois PART II: CONTEMPORARY READINGS Technics of Thinking; A.S.Hoel The Struggle of Titans - Ernst J?nger and Ernst Cassirer: Vitalist and Enlightenment Philosophies of Technology in Weimar Germany; F.Stjernfelt Technology as Destiny in Cassirer and Heidegger: Continuing the Davos Debate; H.Ruin Technical Activity as a Symbolic Form: Comparing Money and Language; J.Lass?gue The Power of Voice: Ernst Cassirer and Bertolt Brecht on Technology, Expressivity and Democracy; I.Folkvord 'Representation' and 'Presence' in the Philosophy of Ernst Cassirer; M.Lauschke Translated by W.McClelland Dunlavey Cultural Poetics and the Politics of Literature; F.Tygstrup & I.W.Holm Translated by L.Utne Cave Art as Symbolic Form; M.Rosengren Failures of Convergence; D.M.Weiss IndexWILSON MCCLELLAND DUNLAVEY Friedrich Naumann Scholar, Humboldt University of Berlin, GermanyISAK WINKEL HOLM Associate Professor of Comparative Literature, University of Copenhagen, DenmarkJOHN MICHAEL KROIS was First Senior Professor of Philosophy, Humboldt University of Berlin, GermanyJEAN LASS?GUE Philosopher attached to the French Scientific Research Council (CNRS), FranceMARION LAUSCHKE Research Associate at the Collegium for the Advanced Study of Picture Act and Embodiment, Humboldt-Universit?t zu Berlin, GermanyMATS ROSENGREN Professor of Rhetoric at S?dert?rn University, Stockholm, SwedenHANS RUIN Professor of Philosophy at S?dert?rn University, Stockholm, SwedenFREDERIK STJERNFELTl3F