biography
pronunciation:
[kaseerer]
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| male
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| lived:
| (1874–1945)
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| biography:
| Philosopher, born in Wrocław, SW Poland (formerly Breslau, Prussia). He studied at Berlin, Leipzig, Heidelberg, and Marburg, where he was attracted to neo-Kantianism. He worked as a tutor and civil servant, then became professor of philosophy at Hamburg (1919), and rector (1930), but he resigned when Hitler came to power, and taught at Oxford (1933–5), Göteborg (1935–41), Yale (1941–4) and Columbia (from 1944 until his death). His best-known work, Die Philosophie der symbolischen Formen (1923–9, The Philosophy of Symbolic Forms), analyses the symbolic functions underlying all human thought, language, and culture. |
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