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Language and myth. / By Ernst Cassirer Late Visiting Professor of Philosophy Columbia University. Translated by Susanne K. Langer author of Philosophy in a New Key.
LIBRA P105 .C32
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LIBRA P105 .C32 1946a
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Cassirer, Ernst, 1874-1945.
- Standardized Title:
- Sprache und Mythos. English
- Language:
- English
- German
- Subjects (All):
- Language and languages.
- Mythology.
- Religion.
- Ethnopsychology.
- Penn Provenance:
- Potok, Adena (donor) (Potok Collection copy)
- Potok, Chaim (autograph) (Potok Collection copy)
- Physical Description:
- x pages, 4 unnumbered pages, 103 pages, 1 unnumbered page ; 21 cm
- Edition:
- [First Dover edition].
- Place of Publication:
- [New York] : Dover Publications Inc., [1946]
- Contents:
- The place of language and myth in the pattern of human culture
- The evolution of religious ideas
- Language and conception
- Word magic - The successive phases of religious thought
- The power of metaphor.
- Notes:
- "Originally published in German as number VI of the 'Studien der Bibliothek Warburg.'"
- "This first Dover edition is an unabridged and unaltered republication of the first edition."
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Local Notes:
- Potok Collection copy presented to the Penn Libraries by Adena Potok.
- Potok Collection copy has autograph of "Chaim Potok 1964".
- Potok Collection copy has [10] pages of publisher's advertisements.
- OCLC:
- 269579
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