Principles of Ernst Cassirer's Philosophy of symbolic forms

The article traces the proximity of ideas about the symbol, culture, the memory of the cultural historian Abi Warburg and the philosopher Ernst Cassirer. The influence of the ideas of Warburg and his library on the “Philosophy of Symbolic Forms” by Cassirer is analyzed. The Warburg Library acts as a tool for knowledge and a guide to the path of intellectual orientation. The author attempts to consider intellectual collaboration within the community of the Warburg Library from the point of view of sociocultural epistemology, and to understand the role of the epistemic surroundings in the formation of humanitarian science.