This book provides a detailed overview of the approach by two of the leading philosophical theorists of myth.
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In William Schultz's volume, Cassirer and Langer on Myth, we are given the full philosophical background to the theory of myth as 'symbolic form'.
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This chapter overviews Cassirer's extensive theory of myth because the number of writings and their difficulty would otherwise make its structure difficult to see without a long period of study. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
mythical mind, mythical dialectic, empirical worldview, modern political myths, mythical worldview, mythical phenomena, mythical cause, mythical perception, mythical consciousness, scientific symbolism, significative function, presentational symbolism, mythical thing, physiognomic traits, presentational symbols, mythical thinking, muscular feeling, other symbolic forms, mythical symbols, generative idea, ideal limit, mythical space, myth starts, inner form, mythical thought Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Ernst Cassirer, New Kev, Nazi Germany, The Myth of the State, Joseph Campbell, Robert Segal, Van Roo, Albert Schweitzer, Cassirer's Political Philosophy, Donald Verene, Martin Heidegger, Alfred North Whitehead, Cassirer's Mvth of the State, Cora Indians, Maurice Merleau-Ponty, Mein Leben, Philosophical Sketches, The Mvth of the State, The Phenomenology of Knowledge, Toni Cassirer, Avy Warburg, Clever Hans, Critic of Nineteenth-Century Ethics, Donald Philip Verene, Epistemological Standpoint New!
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This chapter overviews Cassirer's extensive theory of myth because the number of writings and their difficulty would otherwise make its structure difficult to see without a long period of study. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
mythical mind, mythical dialectic, empirical worldview, modern political myths, mythical worldview, mythical phenomena, mythical cause, mythical perception, mythical consciousness, scientific symbolism, significative function, presentational symbolism, mythical thing, physiognomic traits, presentational symbols, mythical thinking, muscular feeling, other symbolic forms, mythical symbols, generative idea, ideal limit, mythical space, myth starts, inner form, mythical thought Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Ernst Cassirer, New Kev, Nazi Germany, The Myth of the State, Joseph Campbell, Robert Segal, Van Roo, Albert Schweitzer, Cassirer's Political Philosophy, Donald Verene, Martin Heidegger, Alfred North Whitehead, Cassirer's Mvth of the State, Cora Indians, Maurice Merleau-Ponty, Mein Leben, Philosophical Sketches, The Mvth of the State, The Phenomenology of Knowledge, Toni Cassirer, Avy Warburg, Clever Hans, Critic of Nineteenth-Century Ethics, Donald Philip Verene, Epistemological Standpoint New!
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Front Cover | Table of Contents | First Pages | Index | Back Cover | Surprise Me!
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- The Myth of the State by Ernst Cassirer on 10 pages
- Language and Myth by Ernst Cassirer on 9 pages
- Feeling and Form by Susanne K. Langer on 9 pages
- Philosophy in a New Key by Suzanne Langer on 9 pages
- Substance and Function by E. Cassirer on 7 pages
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- The Myth and Ritual School: J.G. Frazer and the Cambridge Ritualists (Theorists of Myth) by Robert Ackerman in Front Matter
- Political Myth (Theorists of Myth) by Christopher Flood in Front Matter
- Rene Girard and Myth: An Introduction (Theorists of Myth) by Richard Golsan in Front Matter
- Myth and Religion in Mircea Eliade (Theorists of Myth) by Douglas Allen in Front Matter
- The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror : Fourteenth Annual Collection by Terri Windling in Front Matter
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