The Philosophy of Symbolic Forms: Volume 2: Mythical Thought

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Yale University Press, 1955 M01 1 - 269 páginas

The Symbolic Forms has long been considered the greatest of Cassirer’s works.  Into it he poured all the resources of his vast learning about language and myth, religion, art, and science—the various creative symbolizing activities and constructions through which man has expressed himself and given intelligible objective form to this experience.

“These three volumes alone (apart from Cassirer’s other papers and books) make an outstanding contribution to epistemology and to the human power of abstraction.  It is rather as if ‘The Golden Bough’ had been written in philosophical rather than in historical terms.”—F.I.G. Rawlins, Nature

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The Problem of a Philosophy of Mythology
1
The Mythical Consciousness of the Object
29
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Foundations of a Theory of Mythical Forms Space
83
The Formation of Time in the Mythical and Religious Con
118
Mythical Number and the System of Sacred Numbers
140
Myth as a Life Form Discovery and Determination
153
The Development of the Feeling of Self from the Myth
175
The Concept of Personality and the Personal Gods The Phases
199
Cult and Sacrifice
219
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