The Philosophy of Symbolic Forms, Volume 2: Mythical Thinking

ISBN-13: 9781138907201 / Angielski / Twarda / 2020 / 334 str.

Ernst Cassirer

Opis

The Philosophy of Symbolic Forms is Cassirer's most important work. This major new translation brings his magnum opus to a new generation of students and scholars. Volume 2: Mythical Thought considers the role of myth in human thought and expression.

Recenzje

'The three volumes of The Philosophy of Symbolic Forms focus on language, myth, and science respectively, offering fascinating, if necessarily fragmentary and speculative, accounts of how each develops in the direction of increasing freedom and universality… the basic insight of The Philosophy of Symbolic Forms is one that continues to inform the humanities today. The categories we use to understand the world aren’t a passive reflection of the way things really are; rather, we actively create systems of meaning that evolve over time.' - Adam Kirsch, New York Review of Books

Spis treści

Foreword Peter E. Gordon;  Translator’s Preface Steve G. Lofts;  Translator’s Introduction: A Transcendental Critique of Mythical-Religious Consciousness: Identity-Thinking, the Natural Attitude, and an Immanence in the Sacred Sense of Life Steve G. Lofts; Translator’s Acknowledgements Steve G. Lofts;  Preface;  Introduction: The Problem of A "Philosophy of Mythology"  Part 1: Myth as Thought-Form  1. The Character and Basic Tendency of Mythical Object Consciousness  2. The Individual Categories of Mythical Thinking  Part 2: Myth as Form of Intuition: The Construction and Organization of the Spatialtemporal World in Mythical Consciousness  1. The Basic Opposition  2. The Basic Features of a Morphology of Myth: Space, Time, and Number  Part 3: Myth as Life-Form: The Discovery and Determination of Subjective Reality in Mythical Consciousness  1. The I and the Soul  2. The Forming Emergence of the Feeling of Self from the Mythical Feeling of Unity and Life  3. Cult and Sacrifice  Part 4: The Dialectic of Mythical Consciousness.  Glossary of German Terms; Index.