The Philosophy of Symbolic Forms, Vol. 2: Mythical Thought

The Philosophy of Symbolic Forms, Vol. 2: Mythical Thought

The Symbolic Forms has long been considered the greatest of Cassirerâ€™s works.Â Into it he poured all the resources of his vast learning about language and myth, religion, art, and scienceÂ—the various creative symbolizing activities and constructions through which man has expressed himself and given intelligible objective form to this experience.Â Â
Â“These three volumes alone (apart from Cassirerâ€™s other papers and books) make an outstanding contribution to epistemology and to the human power of abstraction.Â It is rather as if Â‘The Golden Boughâ€™ had been written in philosophical rather than in historical terms.â€Â—F.I.G. Rawlins, Nature

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