The Philosophy of Symbolic Forms: Volume 2: Mythical ThoughtThe 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 |
Contents
The Problem of a Philosophy of Mythology | 1 |
The Mythical Consciousness of the Object | 29 |
27 | 52 |
Foundations of a Theory of Mythical Forms Space | 83 |
The Formation of Time in the Mythical and Religious Con | 118 |
Mythical Number and the System of Sacred Numbers | 140 |