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Publication Date: 2006
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Art as Symbolic Form: Cassirer on the Educational Value of Art
Bayer, Thora Ilin
Journal of Aesthetic Education, v40 n4 p51-64 Win 2006
Among the papers that Ernst Cassirer left at his death in 1945 is a fully written out lecture labeled "Seminar of Education, March 10th, 1943," which also bears the title "The Educational Value of Art." It may have been prepared for a session of Cassirer's seminar at Yale for that spring on Aesthetics: Symbolic Forms, the second half of a yearlong course. The text begins with discussion of the Platonic quarrel with the poets and moves through views of various thinkers, especially Croce and Collingwood. Cassirer had planned to have a volume on art included in The Philosophy of Symbolic Forms, in addition to those on Language, Mythical Thought, and The Phenomenology of Knowledge. In these three volumes he often mentions the triad of language, myth, and art, but he says little of art as such. (Contains 32 notes.)
Descriptors: Art, Aesthetics, Aesthetic Education, Educational Philosophy, Mythology, Poetry, Philosophy, Language, Sciences
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