Christian Krüger

This paper aims to reconstruct Ernst Cassirer’s theory of art against the backdrop of the systematic question of what overall contribution art can make to man’s relationship to the world. It will be shown that for Cassirer, the productive benefit of art is essentially developing new sensuous skills of perception when interacting with art. In Essay on Man Cassirer gives three central determinations to sketch out this idea. This paper argues that in order to render Cassirer’s concept of productive art intelligible, one has to show how these determinations are conceptually interrelated. Moreover, based on these three determinations this paper will outline three criteria that a satisfactory concept of productive art has to meet. mehr

Das Weltverhältnis des Menschen ist wesentlich durch den Gebrauch symbolischer Medien geprägt. Dieser Gedanke wurde immer wieder so verstanden, dass die mittels Symbolen etablierten Strukturen ... mehr