Revisão de um itinerário filosófico: da ideia de cultura ao conceito de forma simbólica

Abstract

The subject of this paper focuses on the notion of "culture" encapsulated in Aufklärung and on the concept of "symbolic form" proposed in the work of Ernst Cassirer. Although the two appear to suggest a mere historical continuity, supported in part by the relationship between the thought of Immanuel Kant and Cassirer's philosophy of culture, there is, from a certain philosophical point of view, a distinctive itinerary that allows us to glimpse the many changes that have resulted from the theoretical articulation of both. Making this itinerary intelligible and identifying conceptual differences that better define it, will be the main purposes of our reflection.