Document Type : Research

Authors

• Reza Mirmobin ¹
• Ali Moradkhani ²
• Seyed Abdol Majid Sharifzadeh ³

¹ PhD Student of Philosophy of Art, Islamic Azad University, Tehran North Branch, Tehran, Iran

² Associate Professor, Department of Philosophy, Islamic Azad University, Tehran North Branch, Tehran, Iran

³ Faculty Member of Cultural Heritage and Tourism Research Institute

Abstract

The Ernest Cassirer Symbolist Philosophy was one of the most important systematic philosophical thoughts of the twentieth century, which did not spread as many times as it deserved and was not introduced in principle. One of these reasons was the lack of author’s conclusive work on his philosophy. But at the end of his life, he wrote a book for English speakers, which is an entry into this thinking. The book, An Essay on Man, was translated from French translation to Persian. This book was important because of an independent chapter on art which the philosopher did not have time to review. The present article intends to correct the mistakes by reviewing the Persian text with the English text of the chapter and provide a small field for understanding this valuable and succinct chapter. So, there is no intention of criticizing the translator and only to facilitate the understanding of the topic for the Persian speaker.

Keywords

• The Philosophy of Symbolic Forms
• Art
• Ernst Cassirer
• An Essay on Man
• Translation

Main Subjects

• Art