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LANGUAGE AND MYTH by Ernst Carsirer
In this important study Ernst Cassirer analyzes the non-rational thought processes that go to make up culture. 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 sliows 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 Bhagavad Gita, the Melanesian concept of Mana, the Naturphilosophie of Schelling, modern poetry, Ancient Egyptian religion, and symbolic logic. He covers a vast rangé of material that is all too often neglected in studies of human thought.
THE MYTHIC NATURE OF LANGUAGE
These six essays are of great interest to the... Tovább

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LANGUAGE AND MYTH by Ernst Carsirer
In this important study Ernst Cassirer analyzes the non-rational thought processes that go to make up culture. 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 sliows 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 Bhagavad Gita, the Melanesian concept of Mana, the Naturphilosophie of Schelling, modern poetry, Ancient Egyptian religion, and symbolic logic. He covers a vast rangé of material that is all too often neglected in studies of human thought.
THE MYTHIC NATURE OF LANGUAGE
These six essays are of great interest to the student of philosophy, of philosophy of science, the historian, or anthropologist. They are also remarkably timely for students of literature, what with the enormous emphasis placed upon "myth" in modern literary speculation. This book is not superficial speculation by a dabbler, but a penetrating study by one of the most profound and sensitive philosophic minds of our time.
CONTENTS. The Place of Language and Myth in the Pattern of Human Culture. The Evolution of Religious Ideas. Language and Conception. Word Magic. The Successive Phases of Religious Thought. The Power of Metaphor. Vissza