Language and Myth Cassirer ErnstPaperback
Language and Myth Cassirer ErnstPaperback In this important study Ernst Cassirer analyzes the non-rational thought processes that go to make up culture. He shows that this prelogical logic is not…
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Language and Myth Cassirer ErnstPaperback
In this important study Ernst Cassirer analyzes the non-rational thought processes that go to make up culture. 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 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 covers a vast range of material that is all too often neglected in studies of human thought.These six essays
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Ceremonial Magic and Myth
Polish Folklore and Myth
Troy: myth and reality