The Philosophy of Symbolic Forms: Volume 2: Mythical Thought

by Ernst Cassirer

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0300000383
• ISBN13: 9780300000382
• Release Date: January 1965
• Publisher: Yale University Press
• Length: 388 Pages
• Weight: 0.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.5" x 8.5"