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Title: Language and Myth by Ernst Cassirer ISBN: 0-486-20051-5 Publisher: Dover Pubns Pub. Date: 01 June, 1953 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $6.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 5 (5 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Have Yourself a Paradigm Shift
Comment: How can such a small, easy to read, & to the point book reveal so much? Ernst Cassirer is a philosophical genius who writes to the common man without all the typical wasted German idealist wording. Help yourself to question the beginning, the history, & the continuing changes of how language & myth intertwine, & limit our human experience. Great starting book for the Philosophical beginner, & if you like this book, try Ernst Cassirer's other well written, but larger book: "Essay on Man".
Rating: 5
Summary: Not just good, but great reading!
Comment: My first book as a fledgling philosophy student was Cassirer's
work on the Enlightenment and I was in up over my head, but I stuck it out and learned a lot. So, when his book on myth and language came to my attention, I was familiar with the author and his reputation. I have not read the professional critiques on this work, but my personal opinion is that it is unique in every respect. I have not seen anything else that parallels the growth of myth (religion) and language as this does, nor have I seen anything that deals as effectively with the idea of epistemology that is quite apart from that of science and inductive probabilities. If you want to read what a brilliant man believes and substantiates about knowledge from a really different viewpoint, this may be the book for you. It is deep, but each page will grab you -- perhaps more than once.
Rating: 5
Summary: brilliant
Comment: This little book is a revelation in 99 pages. It is highly theoretical and while it is not an easy read it is not beyond the comprehension of a layperson either. Cassirer's arguments lead me to think about language and consciousness itself in ways which I never have before, but which seem so amazingly right that I experienced many moments of epiphany. This book is an excellent rebuttal to the argument that reason is the origin and culmination of human thought and that all myth is rooted in ignorance (take that, Carl Sagan). If you are interested in theories of mythology and/or theories of language/linguistics, this book is a must.
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Title: Essay on Man: An Introduction to a Philosophy of Human Culture by Ernst Cassirer ISBN: 0300000340 Publisher: Yale Univ Pr Pub. Date: June, 1992 List Price(USD): $18.00 |
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Title: Philosophy of Symbolic Forms: Mythical Thought by Ernst Cassirer, Ralph Manheim, Charles W. Hendel ISBN: 0300000383 Publisher: Yale Univ Pr Pub. Date: December, 1955 List Price(USD): $21.00 |
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Title: The Philosophy of Symbolic Forms, Volume 1: Language by Ernst, Cassirer, Ralph Manheim, Charles Hendel ISBN: 0300000375 Publisher: Yale Univ Pr Pub. Date: December, 1965 List Price(USD): $25.00 |
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Title: Philosophy in a New Key: A Study in the Symbolism of Reason, Rite, and Art by Susanne K. Langer ISBN: 0674665031 Publisher: Harvard Univ Pr Pub. Date: June, 1957 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
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Title: The Individual and the Cosmos in Renaissance Philosophy by Ernst Cassirer ISBN: 0486414388 Publisher: Dover Pubns Pub. Date: 10 November, 2000 List Price(USD): $8.95 |
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