"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". As a central part of his philosophy of symbolic forms as a form of religious expression, and as a political problematic, the question of myth belongs at the heart of Ernst Cassirer's intellectual enterprise. Using a variety of methodological and conceptual approaches, these papers examine the persistence of myth as a symbolic form from a variety of perspectives: philosophical, anthropological, psychological, political, and historico-cultural. In its way, each paper attempts, in Cassirer's phrase, to 'see the adversary face to face'. The contributors to this volume are Paul Bishop, Alan Cardew, Milad Doueihi, Dina Gusejnova, Cyrus Hamlin, Stefanie Holscher, Kai Kress, John Michael Krois, Barbara Naumann, Detlev Patzold, Martine Prange, Birgit Recki, Edward Skidelsky, Roger Stephenson, Jonathan Westwood and Graham Whitaker.
"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". As a central part of his philosophy of symbolic forms as a form of religious expression, and as a political problematic, the question of myth belongs at the heart of Ernst Cassirer's intellectual enterprise. Using a variety of methodological and conceptual approaches, these papers examine the persistence of myth as a symbolic form from a variety of perspectives: philosophical, anthropological, psychological, political, and historico-cultural. In its way, each paper attempts, in Cassirer's phrase, to 'see the adversary face to face'. The contributors to this volume are Paul Bishop, Alan Cardew, Milad Doueihi, Dina Gusejnova, Cyrus Hamlin, Stefanie Holscher, Kai Kress, John Michael Krois, Barbara Naumann, Detlev Patzold, Martine Prange, Birgit Recki, Edward Skidelsky, Roger Stephenson, Jonathan Westwood and Graham Whitaker.
1 The Pathos Formulae of Mythic Thought 2 Why Do We Need Myth? Homer, Nietzsche, and Helen’s Weaving-Loom 3 Transference of Myth: Tableaux vivants in Goethe’s Elective Affinities 4 The Romantic Programme for a New Mythology and its Legacies in Modern Critical Theory 5 Ernst Cassirer’s Die Begriffsform im mythischen Denken and the Beginnings of his Friendship with Fritz Saxl and Aby Warburg 6 Ernst Cassirer: The Myth of Language 7 Olympian or Pathologist? Cassirer, Gundolf, and the Hero Myth 8 The ‘Persistence of Myth’? Cassirer and Anthropology9 Cassirer’s Critique of Myth: Its Relevance for Today 10 The Return of the Manicheans: Kant and Nietzsche 11 Film Between Myth and Art: A Cassirerian Approach VI THE PERSISTENCE OF MYTH 12 The Importance of Mythical Thought for the Development of Cassirer’s Phenomenology 13 The Politics of Myth: Cassirer, Bachofen, and Sorel 14 The Levels and Modes of Symbolism: Myth, Art, and Language in Cassirer with Special Reference to Goethe’s ‘Urworte. Orphisch’ 15 Concepts of Space in Mythical and Scientific Thought: A Challenge to Cassirer’s Apriorism?
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