Ernst Cassirer

The Philosophy of Symbolic Forms, Volume 2 (eBook, ePUB)

Mythical Thinking
Übersetzer: Lofts, Steve G.

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

The Philosophy of Symbolic Forms is Cassirer's most important work. This major new translation brings his magnum opus to a new generation of students and scholars. Volume 2: Mythical Thought considers the role of myth in human thought and expression.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 370
• Erscheinungstermin: 24. September 2020
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781000007947
• Artikelnr.: 68440494

Autorenporträt

Ernst Cassirer was born in Germany 1874 in the city of Breslau (now Wroclaw, Poland). He taught at Hamburg University from 1919 to 1933, and then at All Souls College, Oxford, before emigrating to Sweden and then to the United States. Through its creative interpretation of Kant's philosophy combined with a deep knowledge of the role of language and culture, Cassirer's work is regarded as indispensable to understanding the relationship between the two major traditions in twentieth-century philosophy, the "analytic" and the "continental". Cassirer's philosophy is unique, as it sought a common ground between the scientific and humanistic worldviews which frequently divided these two traditions, exemplified in his famous debate with Martin Heidegger at Davos in 1929. His work resulted in the monumental Philosophy of Symbolic Forms as well as several books on the philosophy of humanism and the Enlightenment. He taught at the universities of Yale and Columbia in the early 1940s and died in New York in 1945.

Steve G. Lofts is Professor of Philosophy at King's University College, Canada. He is the translator of Cassirer's The Logic of the Cultural Sciences and The Warburg Years (1919-1933): Essays on Language, Art, Myth, and Technology.

Inhaltsangabe

Foreword Peter E. Gordon; Translator's Preface Steve G. Lofts;
Translator's Introduction: A Transcendental Critique of Mythical-Religious
Consciousness: Identity-Thinking, the Natural Attitude, and an Immanence in
the Sacred Sense of Life Steve G. Lofts; Translator's Acknowledgements
Steve G. Lofts; Preface; Introduction: The Problem of A "Philosophy of
Mythology" Part 1: Myth as Thought-Form 1. The Character and Basic Tendency
of Mythical Object Consciousness 2. The Individual Categories of Mythical
Thinking Part 2: Myth as Form of Intuition: The Construction and
Organization of the Spatialtemporal World in Mythical Consciousness 1. The
Basic Opposition 2. The Basic Features of a Morphology of Myth: Space,
Time, and Number Part 3: Myth as Life-Form: The Discovery and Determination
of Subjective Reality in Mythical Consciousness 1. The I and the Soul 2.
The Forming Emergence of the Feeling of Self from the Mythical Feeling of
Unity and Life 3. Cult and Sacrifice Part 4: The Dialectic of Mythical
Consciousness. Glossary of German Terms; Index.