Cognitive aspects of religious symbolism
How are religious ideas represented, acquired and transmitted? Confronted with religious practices, anthropologists have typically been content with sociological generalisations, informed by vague, intuitive models of cognitive processes. Yet modern cognitive theories promise a …
"Developed from the author's Philosophy is a new key." Bibliography: p. 417-428.
The philosophy of symbolic forms
by Cassirer, Ernst, Manheim, Ralph, Hendel, Charles William
fromYale Paperbound
The philosophy of symbolic forms
by Cassirer, Ernst, Manheim, Ralph, Hendel, Charles William
fromYale Paperbound
The Symbolic Forms has long been considered the greatest of Cassirerʹs 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 expre…
The symbolic form has long been considered by many who knew it in the original German as the greatest of Ernst Cassirer's works. Into it he poured all the resources of his vast learning about language, myth, religion, art, and science- the various creative symbolizing activities…
