The Philosophy of Symbolic Forms is Cassirer's most important work. This major new translation brings his magnum opus to a new generation of students and scholars. Volume 2: Mythical Thought considers the role of myth in human thought and expression.

Foreword Peter E. Gordon; Translator's Preface Steve G. Lofts; Translator's Introduction: A Transcendental Critique of Mythical-Religious Consciousness: Identity-Thinking, the Natural Attitude, and an Immanence in the Sacred Sense of Life Steve G. Lofts; Translator's Acknowledgements Steve G. Lofts; Preface; Introduction: The Problem of A "Philosophy of Mythology" Part 1: Myth as Thought-Form 1. The Character and Basic Tendency of Mythical Object Consciousness 2. The Individual Categories of Mythical Thinking Part 2: Myth as Form of Intuition: The Construction and Organization of the Spatialtemporal World in Mythical Consciousness 1. The Basic Opposition 2. The Basic Features of a Morphology of Myth: Space, Time, and Number Part 3: Myth as Life-Form: The Discovery and Determination of Subjective Reality in Mythical Consciousness 1. The I and the Soul 2. The Forming Emergence of the Feeling of Self from the Mythical Feeling of Unity and Life 3. Cult and Sacrifice Part 4: The Dialectic of Mythical Consciousness. Glossary of German Terms; Index.