Abstract

GUTIERREZ POZO, Antonio. Art as metaphorical thinking in Cassirer’s symbolic philosophy. Prax. filos. [online]. 2008, n.26, pp.169-188. ISSN 0120-4688.

This article shows that art is for Cassirer a symbolic form, not a copy of the reality. Symbolic form represents a characteristic synthesis between a sensible element and a meaning, therefore that the meaning doesn’t exist regardless of the symbolic form, but it is this form itself. For this reason, the symbol induces to much thought. The symbol founds meaning. That symbolic capacity of synthesis is the power of metaphor. Symbolic forms are forms of metaphorical thinking. Art, as perfect model of that synthesis, also is model of metaphorical thinking, and as a result from this the work of art can’t be replaced by philosophy.

Keywords : Cassirer; art; symbolic form; synthesis; metaphorical thinking.

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