Language and Myth Author:Ernst Cassirer In this important study, Ernst Cassirer analyzes the non-rational thought-processes which go to make up culture. He demonstrates that beneath both language and myth there lies an unconscious "grammar" of experience, whose categories and canons are not those of logical thought. He shows that this pre-logical "logic" is not mer... more »ely an undeveloped state of rationality, but something basically different, and that this archaic mode of thought still has enormous power over even our most rigorous thought in language.« less