Abstract
Among the papers that Ernst Cassirer left at his death in 1945 is a fully written out lecture labeled Seminar of Education, March 10th, 1943, which also bears the title Educational Value of Art. It may have been prepared for a session of Cassirer's seminar at Yale for that spring on Aesthetics: Symbolic Forms, the second half of a yearlong course.1 The text begins with discussion of the Platonic quarrel with the poets and moves through views of various thinkers, especially Croce and Collingwood. Cassirer had planned to have a volume on art included in The Philosophy of Symbolic Forms, in addition to those on Language, Mythical Thought, and The Phenomenology of Knowledge.2 In these three volumes he often mentions the triad of language, myth, and art, but he says little of art as such. In May 1942 in a letter to Paul Schilpp, the American philosopher and editor of the volume of critical essays on Cassirer's work in the Library of Living Philosophers series, Cassirer wrote that he had intended to produce a volume on art but the disfavor (Ungunst) of the times caused him to put it off again and again.3 The principal sources of Cassirer's aesthetics are his chapter on art in An Essay on Man4 and two lectures on the educational val-
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