The Persistence of Myth as Symbolic Form: No. 3

by Bishop; Paul

• ISBN13: 9781904350293
• ISBN10: 1904350291
• Format: Nonspecific Binding
• Copyright: 2008-11-01
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

'Myth has not been really vanquished and subjugated. It is always there, lurking in the dark and waiting for its hour and opportunity' (Ernst Cassirer, The Myth of the State).

Table of Contents

Picture Copyright Acknowledgements	p. vii
Foreword	p. ix
Acknowledgements	p. xviii
Countributors	p. xix
The Pathos Formulae of Mythic Thought	p. 1
Why Do We Need Myth? Homer, Nietzsche, and Helen's Weaving-Loom	p. 18
Transference of Myth: Tableaux vivants in Goethe's Affinities	p. 35
The Romantic Programme for a New Mythology and its Legacies in Modern Critical Theory	p. 49
Frast Cassiret's Die Begriffsform in mythischen Denken and the Beginnings of his Friendship with Fritz Saxl and Aby Warburg	p. 71
Ernst Cassirer: The Myth of Language	p. 84
Olympian or Pathologist? Cassirer, Gundolf, and the Hero Myth	p. 100
The 'Persistence of Myth'? Cassirer and Anthropology	p. 130
Cassirer's Critique of Myth: Its Relevance for Today	p. 150
The Return of the Manicheans: Kant and Nietzsche	p. 157
Film Between Myth and Art: A Cassierian Approach	p. 182
The Importance of Mythical Thought for the Development of Cassirer's Phenomenology	p. 190
The Politics of Myth: Cassirer, Bachofen, and Sorel	p. 219
The Levels and Modes of Symbolism: Myth, Art, and Language in Cassirer with Special Reference to Goethe's 'Urworte. Orphisch'	p. 243
Concepts of Space in Mythical and Scientific Thought: A Challenge to Cassirer's Apriorism?	p. 263
Index	p. 281
Colour Plates	p. 280
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