The Human World Of Space And Time By Ernst Cassirer

The Memory of a People In â€Å"The Human World of Space and Time† Ernst Cassirer describes the ideational processes through which human beings construct their world’s spatiality and temporality. In the case of the recollection of memories, Cassirer notes that recollection in humans is not a mere calling to memory of past events but rather â€Å"a rebirth of the past [that] implies a creative and a constructive process.† It is this ideational process of recollection what Cassirer has termed symbolic memory (Cassirer 1944, 51-2). Considering the animal symbolicum denomination that Cassirer attributes to human beings in â€Å"A Clue to the Nature of Man: The Symbol,† the following essay draws on the expressiveness of the symbolic art form and its capacity to engage with the subject through the sensuous to highlight the symbolic appeal of â€Å"The Bracero and Farmworkers Mural† among the Mexican American community in the City of San Juan, TX. Seeking to honor the memory and history of the Mexican American community in the United States, muralist Raul Valdez and his team of University of Texas-Pan American undergraduates and alumnus set forth to create a visual representation of the 1942-1964 Bracero Program. Their aim was, according to Dr. Stephanie Alvarez, to highlight the importance of being connected to one’s community, always knowing where one comes from; emphasizing the responsibility of giving back, specially among first generation Latinx, Chicanx college students who might be more likelyShow MoreRelatedMartin Buber5681 Words   |  23 Pagesutopian world. In fact, this dichotomy which began in the Renaissance and became a gaping wound in the 17th and 18th centuries as we embraced science and reason as our god, has allowed for 20th century aberrations like Hitler and his Aryan ubermenchen or Stalin and his totalitarian state. Clearly, the 20th century mind is in dire need of healing. But only reinventin g a healthy vision of humans in the world, one which integrates both the rational bent and the mystic bent of every human mind, willRead MoreCleanth Brookss Essay Irony as a Principle of Structure9125 Words   |  37 Pagestherefore, that it must be constantly applied to itself, and this is one of the focal points of these essays. At the same time this entails taking up a substantive position with regard to the urgent problems of the present; for according to this view of Marxist method its pre-eminent aim is knowledge of the present. Our preoccupation with methodology in these essays has left little space for an analysis of the concrete problems of the present. For this reason the author would like to take this opportunity