The Poets on the Classics: An Anthology of English Poets' Writings on the Classical Poets and Dramatists from Chaucer to the PresentErnst Cassirer occupies a unique space in Twentieth-century philosophy. A great liberal humanist, his multi-faceted work spans the history of philosophy, the philosophy of science, intellectual history, aesthetics, epistemology, the study of language and myth, and more. The Philosophy of Symbolic Forms is Cassirer's most important work. It was first published in German in 1923, the third and final volume appearing in 1929. In it Cassirer presents a radical new philosophical worldview - at once rich, creative and controversial - of human beings as fundamentally "symbolic animals", placing signs and systems of expression between themselves and the world. This major new translation, the first for over fifty years, brings Cassirer's magnum opus to a new generation of students and scholars. Volume 2: Mythical Thought considers the role of myth in human thought and expression. Cassirer examines the main features of morphology of myth before tackling the relationship between myth and self-consciousness. He argues that human beings' experience of the world around them is charged with affective and emotional significance, as desirable or hateful, comforting or threatening. It is this type of meaning which underlies mythical consciousness and explains its disregard for the distinction between appearance and reality. From mythical thought religion and art develop, Cassirer argues, making the mythical view of the world the earliest form of philosophical expression. Correcting important errors in previous English editions, this translation reflects the contributions of significant advances in Cassirer scholarship over the last twenty to thirty years. Each volume includes a new introduction and translator's notes by S. G. Lofts, a foreword by Peter Gordon, a glossary of key terms, and a thorough index. |
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... texts are numbered in a single sequence and chronologically ordered within the individual sections . The dates given for the texts are those of first publication unless a substantial discrepancy exists between this and the date of ...
... texts and titles are conservatively modernised in orthography , punctuation , italicization , and capitalization , stopping short of alterations in matters of deliberate and positive choice on the author's part ( as opposed to adherence ...
... texts . The numbers refer to the texts , not the pages on which they appear . Aeschylus 5 , 6 , 8 , 9 , 10 , 23 , 24 , 45 , 156 Agathon 45 Alcaeus 14 , 16 , 30 Anacreon 3 , 14 , 15 , 16 , 22 , 31 Apollonius 176 Aratus 169 Archilochus 91 ...