The philosophy of symbolic forms. Volume 2 Mythical thought / by Ernst Cassirer; translated by Ralph Manheim; introductory note by Charles W. Hendel

Cassirer, Ernst (1874-1945)

ISBN 10: 0300000383 / ISBN 13: 9780300000382

Editore: New Haven, Connecticut; London, England: Yale University Press, 1996

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Fine copy in the original stiff-card wrappers. Particularly and surprisingly well-preserved; tight, bright, clean and especially sharp-cornered. Date is suggested. Physical description: xviii, 269 pages; 21 cm. Subjects: Knowledge, Theory of. Language and languages Philosophy. Symbolism. Mythology.Languages Philosophy. 1 Kg.

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• Titolo: The philosophy of symbolic forms. Volume 2 Mythical thought / by Ernst Cassirer; translated by Ralph Manheim; introductory note by Charles W. Hendel
• Editore: New Haven, Connecticut; London, England: Yale University Press
• Data di pubblicazione: 1996
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 0300000383
• ISBN 13: 9780300000382
• Rilegatura: Brossura
• Edizione: Reprint.
• Peso: 1 chilogrammo

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Riassunto

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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Book by Cassirer Ernst