Mythical thought

Author(s)

• Cassirer, Ernst
• Manheim, Ralph
• Hendel, Charles William

Bibliographic Information

Mythical thought

by Ernst Cassirer ; translated by Ralph Manheim ; introductory note by Charles W. Hendel

（Yale paperbound, Y-147 . The philosophy of symbolic forms ; v. 2）

Yale University Press, c1955

Note

Includes index

Description and Table of Contents

Description

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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Details

• NCID: BA08036479
• ISBN:
  • 0300000383
• LCCN: 52013969
• Country Code: us
• Title Language Code: eng
• Text Language Code: eng
• Place of Publication: New Haven
• Pages/Volumes: xviii, 269 p.
• Size: 21 cm
• Classification:
  • LCC : B3216.C33
  • DC : 193.9
  • NDC6 : 134.834
• Subject Headings:
  • LCSH : Languages -- Philosophy
  • LCSH : Knowledge, Theory of
  • LCSH : Symbolism
  • LCSH : Mythology
• Parent Bibliography ID:
  • BA00458953