BODY, ILLNESS AND SYMBOL IN ERNST CASSIRER

• Authors: Esparza Urzúa Gustavo Adolfo
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

The aim of this paper is to study Cassirer’s philosophy of the body, and some of its foundations developed in the report entitled “Pathology of Symbolic Consciousness.” It details how patients with cerebral aphasia and apraxia are characterized by a loss of symbolization abilities in the performance of operational tasks, as well as in their linguistic performance, which translates into a decrease in the ability to create cultural meaning. These cases allow one to evaluate the definition of the human being as a “symbolic animal” that is presented in An Essay on Man. An interpretative reading of both works is proposed to underline the role of the body in the development of (a) the symbolic formation process and (b) cultural development.

Keywords

EN

BODY; APHASIA; APRAXIA; SYMBOL; ERNST CASSIRER

• Publisher: Institute of Philosophy, Slovak Academy of Sciences
• Journal: Filozofia (Philosophy)
• Year: 2024
• Volume: 79
• Issue: 4
• Pages: 365 – 379

Contributors

author

Esparza Urzúa Gustavo Adolfo

• Instituto de Humanidades, Universidad Panamericana, Aguascalientes, Av. Josemaría Escrivá de Balaguer 101, Villas de Bonaterra 20296, Aguascalientes, Mexico

• https://orcid.org/%280000-0002-9470-6519

Identifiers

DOI

https://doi.org/10.31577/filozofia.2024.79.4.2