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Author Cassirer, Ernst, 1874-1945.

Title Language and myth / by Ernst Cassirer ; translated by Susanne K. Langer
Edition First Dover edition
Published New York : Dover Publications, [1946]
[©1946]

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Description x, 103 pages ; 21 cm
Contents Place of language and myth in the pattern of human culture -- Evolution of religious ideas -- Language and conception -- Word magic -- Successive phases of religious thought -- Power of metaphor
Summary Six essays which analyze the non-national thought processes that influence culture
Notes Originally published in German as number VI of the Studien der Bibliothek Warburg
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Subject Ethnopsychology.
Language and languages.
Mythology.
Religion.
Author Langer, Susanne K. (Susanne Katherina Knauth), 1895-1985, translator
LC no. 53009352
ISBN 0486200515
Other Titles Sprache und Mythos. English