Symbol and Interpretation - Softcover

Inhaltsangabe

I: Symbol and Language.- On Multiple Realities.- Potentiality, Givenness, Heritage, Memory.- Actualization and Meaning.- Multiple Realities.- Language and the Symbol.- Language and Consciousness.- Language as Isomorphic to Consciousness.- Conclusion.- II: Mircea Eliade: Structural Hermeneutics and Philosophy.- The Symbol as a Dimension of Consciousness.- The Method for Establishing the Symbol as a Valid Form.- Conclusion.- III: Paul Ricoeur: The Anthropological Necessity of a Special Language.- The Question.- Philosophy of the Will.- Freedom and Nature.- Fallible Man.- The Symbolism of Evil.- An Answer.- Conclusion.- IV: Myth, Structure and Interpretation.- From Evolution to Structure.- Structural Hermeneutics.- Archaic Ontology.- Conclusion.- V: Toward a Theoretical Foundation for a Correlation Between Literary and Religious Discourse.- Background.- Theory of Language: The Possibility of a Phenomenological Model.- Hermeneutics: the Interpretation of Special Languages.- Conclusion.- VI: Socio-Political Symbolism and the Transformation of Consciousness.- The Conflict of Rationality: Operational and Dialectical.- Utopian Symbolism.- Symbol, Seriality, and the Group Resolve.- Symbol, Structure and Philosophical Anthropology.- Conclusion.

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