The Philosophy of Symbolic Forms, Volume 2: Mythical Thinking
Cover -- Half Title -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Foreword -- Translator's Preface -- Translator's Introduction: A Transcendental Critique of Mythical-Religious Consciousness: Identity-Thinking, the Natural Attitude, and an Immanence in the Sacred Sense of Life -- Translator's Acknowledgments -- Preface -- Introduction: The Problem of a "Philosophy of Mythology" -- Part One: Myth as Thought-Form -- I The Character and Basic Tendency of Mythical Object Consciousness -- II The Individual Categories of Mythical Thinking -- Part Two: Myth as Form of Intuition: The Construction and Organization of the Spatiotemporal World in Mythical Consciousness -- I The Basic Opposition -- II The Basic Features of a Morphology of Myth: Space, Time, and Number -- 1. The Organization of Space in Mythical Consciousness -- 2. Space and Light: The Problem of "Orientation" -- 3. The Mythical Concept of Time -- 4. The Configuration of Time in Mythical and Religious Consciousness -- 5. Mythical Number and the System of "Sacred Numbers" -- Part Three: Myth as Life-Form: The Discovery and Determination of Subjective Reality in Mythical Consciousness -- I The I and the Soul -- II The Forming Emergence of the Feeling of Self from the Mythical Feeling of Unity and Life -- 1. The Community of the Living and Mythical Class Formation: Totemism -- 2. The Concept of Personality and the Personal Gods: The Phases of the Mythical Concept of the I -- III Cult and Sacrifice -- Part Four: The Dialectic of Mythical Consciousness -- Glossary of German Terms -- Index.