ABSTRACT

Ernst Cassirer’s The Logic of the Cultural Sciences: Five Studies is part of his late work. The book was published in 1942 and contains five essays that deal with the main questions of sociology and cultural studies. This essay confines itself to the questions (1) of the object of cultural studies, (2) of perception in the context of the philosophy of symbolic forms, and finally, (3) the tragedy of culture following Georg Simmel. I aim to contextualize the ideas of Cassirer by outlining how these ideas arose in their time. The essay shows how contemporary scientists work with the ideas of Cassirer in the whole field of cultural studies (4).