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Language and Myth by Ernst Cassirer (1953, Trade Paperback)

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ISBN
9780486200514

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Product Identifiers

Publisher
Dover Publications, Incorporated
ISBN-10
0486200515
ISBN-13
9780486200514
eBay Product ID (ePID)
127362685

Product Key Features

Book Title
Language and Myth
Number of Pages
128 Pages
Language
English
Publication Year
1953
Topic
Grammar & Punctuation, Religious, Folklore & Mythology, General, Ethnopsychology, Linguistics / General
Genre
Religion, Philosophy, Social Science, Language Arts & Disciplines, Psychology
Author
Ernst Cassirer
Format
Trade Paperback

Dimensions

Item Height
0.3 in
Item Weight
5.7 Oz
Item Length
8 in
Item Width
5.4 in

Additional Product Features

Intended Audience
Trade
Dewey Edition
21
Dewey Decimal
193
Table Of Content
1. The Place of Language and Myth in the Pattern of Human Culture 2. The Evolution of Religious Ideas 3. Language and Conception 4. Word Magic 5. The Successive Phases of Religious Thought 6. The Power of Metaphor
Synopsis
In this important study Ernst Cassirer analyzes the non-rational thought processes that go to make up culture. He demonstrates that beneath both language and myth there lies an unconscious "grammar" of experience, whose categories and canons are not those of logical thought. He shows that this prelogical "logic" is not merely an undeveloped state of rationality, but something basically different, and that this archaic mode of thought still has enormous power over even our most rigorous thought, in language, poetry and myth. The author analyzes brilliantly such seemingly diverse (yet related) phenomena as the metaphysics of the Bhagavat Gita, the Melanesian concept of Mana, the Naturphilosophie of Schelling, modern poetry, Ancient Egyptian religion, and symbolic logic. He covers a vast range of material that is all too often neglected in studies of human thought. These six essays are of great interest to the student of philosophy or the philosophy of science, the historian, or the anthropologist. They are also remarkably timely for students of literature, what with the enormous emphasis placed upon "myth" in modern literary speculation. This book is not superficial speculation by a dabbler, but a penetrating study by one of the most profound and sensitive philosophic minds of our time., In this important study, Cassirer analyzes the non-rational thought processes that go to make up culture. Includes studies of the metaphysics of the Bhagavat Gita, Ancient Egyptian religion, symbolic logic, and more., Analyzes nonrational thought processes, demonstrating underlying grammar; Indian philosophy, Schelling modern poetry, much more.
LC Classification Number
P105.C32 1

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