Download or read book Symbols in Structure and Function Theories of symbolism written by Charles A. Sarnoff and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Symbols in Structure and Function Volume 1 written by Charles A. Sarnoff and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2004-05-04 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: +This is the first unit of three devoted to an explication of the structure and function of symbols. The following topics are covered. Ch-1 SIMPLE SYMBOLS Ch-2 PSYCHOANALYTIC SYMBOLS Ch-3 POETIC SYMBOLS Ch-4 TRANSCENDENT SYMBOLS CH-5 - THE ONTOGENESIS OF THE SYMBOLIZING FUNCTION CH-6 – THE ONTOGENESIS OF SYMBOLS FROM BIRTH TO SIX YEARS OF AGE CH-7 - THE ONTOGENESIS OF SYMBOLS FROM THE LATENCY AGE TO THE ADULT YEARS CH-8 - THE SCIENTIFIC STUDY OF SYMBOLS CH-9 - DREAM SYMBOL CHARACTERISTICS IN SPECIFIC SLEEP STAGES CH-10 - CONSCIOUSNESS AND AFFECT MANAGEMENT THROUGH PSYCHOANALYTIC SYMBOL FORMATION CH-11 - SYMBOLS AND THE SENSE OF REALITY
Download or read book Symbols in Structure and Function Volume 1 written by Charles A. Sarnoff and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Symbols in Structure and Function Volume 3 written by Charles A. Sarnoff and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2004-01-12 with total page 309 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the third unit of three devoted to an explication of the structure and function of symbols. The following topics are covered. Ch-1 SYMBOLS AND THE GROWTH OF SOCIETY Ch-2 UNIVERSAL SYMBOLS Ch-3 THE EVOLUTION OF THE SYMBOLS OF RELIGIOUS BELIEFS AND MYTHOLOGY The Life and Death of a Myth Ch-4 SYMBOLIC MORALISM Ch-5 THE INFLUENCE OF MYTH ON THE NATURE OF SYMBOLIC FORMS IN MANIFEST DREAMS Ch-6 THE POWER IN THE SYMBOL Ch-7 THOUGHT DISORDER, SYMBOLS, AND ART De Chirico, Dadd, Tasso, Joyce Ch-8 FEELINGS WORDS AND VISIONS: Symbols and Personality in the Paintings of Thomas Cole
Download or read book Symbolism and Truth written by Ralph Monroe Eaton and published by . This book was released on 1925 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a new release of the original 1925 edition.
Download or read book Symbolic Interactionism written by Herbert Blumer and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 1986 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a collection of articles dealing with the point of view of symbolic interactionism and with the topic of methodology in the discipline of sociology. It is written by the leading figure in the school of symbolic interactionism, and presents what might be regarded as the most authoritative statement of its point of view, outlining its fundamental premises and sketching their implications for sociological study. Blumer states that symbolic interactionism rests on three premises: that human beings act toward things on the basis of the meanings of things have for them; that the meaning of such things derives from the social interaction one has with one's fellows; and that these meanings are handled in, and modified through, an interpretive process.
Download or read book Symbol and Interpretation written by D.M. Rasmussen and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-12-06 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For the past four or five years much of my thinking has centered up on the relationship of symbolic forms to philosophic imagination and interpretation. As one whose own philosophic speculations began at. the end of a cultural epoch under methodologies dominated either by neo-Kantianism or schools of logical empiricism the symbol as a prod uct of a cultural imagination has been diminished; it has been neces sary for those who wanted to preserve the symbol to find appropriate philosophical methodologies to do so. In the following chapters we shall attempt to show, through a consideration of a series of recent interpretations of the symbol, as well as through constructive argu ment, that the symbol ought to be considered as a linguistic form in the sense that it constitutes a special language with its own rubrics and properties. There are two special considerations to be taken ac count of in this argument; first, the definition of the symbol, and sec ond, the interpretation of the symbol. Although we shall refrain from defining the symbol explicitly at this point let it suffice to state that our definition of the symbol is more aesthetic than logical (in the technical sense of formal logic ), more cultural than individual, more imaginative than scientific. The symbol in our view is somewhere at the center of culture, the well-spring which testifies to the human imagination in its poetic, psychic, religious, social and political forms.
Download or read book The Symbol Theory written by Norbert Elias and published by SAGE Publications Limited. This book was released on 1991-09-06 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In The Symbol Theory, Norbert Elias draws together three central themes. At the first level the book is concerned with symbols in relation to language, knowing and thinking. Secondly, Elias stresses that symbols are also tangible sound-patterns of human communication, made possible by the evolutionary biological precondition of human vocal apparatus. At a third level, the book addresses theoretical issues about the ontological status of knowledge, moving beyond traditional philosophical dualisms such as subject//object and idealism//materialism. The bulk of The Symbol Theory was published in Vol 6, issues 2, 3 and 4 of Theory, Culture & Society.
Download or read book Symbols written by Raymond Firth and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2011 with total page 468 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book first published in 1973 offers a broad survey of the study of symbolic ideas and behaviour. The study of symbolism is popular nowadays and anthropologists have made substantial contributions to it. Raymond Firth has long been internationally known for his field research in the Solomons and Malaysia, and for his theoretical work on kinship, economics and religion. Here from a new angle, he has produced a broad survey of the study of symbolic ideas and behaviour. Professor Firth examines definitions of symbol. He traces the history of scientific inquiry into the symbolism of religious cults, mythology and dreams back into the eighteenth century. He compares some modern approaches to symbolism in art, literature and philosophy with those in social anthropology. He then cites examples in anthropological treatment of symbolic material from cultures of varying sophistication. Finally he offers dispassionate analyses of symbols used in contemporary Western situations - from hair-styles to the use and abuse of national flags; from cults of Black Jesus to the Eucharistic rite. In all this Professor Firth combines social and political topicality with a scholarly and provocative theoretical inquiry.
Download or read book Rethinking Symbolism written by Dan Sperber and published by CUP Archive. This book was released on 1975-09-25 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The main thrust of this book is to deliver a major critique of materialist and rationalist explanations of social and cultural forms, but the in the process Sahlins has given us a much stronger statement of the centrality of symbols in human affairs than have many of our 'practicing' symbolic anthropologists. He demonstrates that symbols enter all phases of social life: those which we tend to regard as strictly pragmatic, or based on concerns with material need or advantage, as well as those which we tend to view as purely symbolic, such as ideology, ritual, myth, moral codes, and the like. . . ."—Robert McKinley, Reviews in Anthropology
Download or read book The Acquisition of Symbolic Skills written by Don Rogers and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2013-03-13 with total page 607 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a selection of papers from a conference which took place at the University of Keele in July 1982. The conference was an extraordinarily enjoyable one, and we would like to take this opportunity of thanking all participants for helping to make it so. The conference was intended to allow scholars working on different aspects of symbolic behaviour to compare findings, to look for common ground, and to identify differences between the various areas. We hope that it was successful in these aims: the assiduous reader may judge for himself. Several themes emerged during the course of the conference. Some of these were: 1. There is a distinction to be made between those symbol systems which attempt, more or less directly, to represent a state of affairs in the world (e. g. language, drawing, map and navigational skill) and those in which the representational function is complemented, if not overshadowed, by properties of the symbol system itself, and the systematic inter-relations that symbols can have to one another (e. g. music, mathematics). The distinction is not absolute, for the nature of all symbolic skills is, in part, a function of the structure of the symbolic system employed. Nonetheless, this distinction helps us to understand some common acquisition difficulties, such as that experienced in mathematics, where mental manipulation of symbols can go awry if a child assumes too close a correspondence between mathematical symbols and the world they represent. 2.
Download or read book Symbols Routledge Revivals written by Raymond Firth and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-01-11 with total page 468 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book first published in 1973 offers a broad survey of the study of symbolic ideas and behaviour. The study of symbolism is popular nowadays and anthropologists have made substantial contributions to it. Raymond Firth has long been internationally known for his field research in the Solomons and Malaysia, and for his theoretical work on kinship, economics and religion. Here from a new angle, he has produced a broad survey of the study of symbolic ideas and behaviour. Professor Firth examines definitions of symbol. He traces the history of scientific inquiry into the symbolism of religious cults, mythology and dreams back into the eighteenth century. He compares some modern approaches to symbolism in art, literature and philosophy with those in social anthropology. He then cites examples in anthropological treatment of symbolic material from cultures of varying sophistication. Finally he offers dispassionate analyses of symbols used in contemporary Western situations - from hair-styles to the use and abuse of national flags; from cults of Black Jesus to the Eucharistic rite. In all this Professor Firth combines social and political topicality with a scholarly and provocative theoretical inquiry.
Download or read book Theories of the Symbol written by Tzvetan Todorov and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 1984 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Focusing on theories of verbal symbolism, Tzvetan Todorov here presents a history of semiotics. From an account of the semiotic doctrines embodied in the works of classical rhetoric to an exploration of representative modern concepts of the symbol found in ethnology, psychoanalysis, linguistics, and poetics, Todorov examines the rich tradition of sign theory. In the course of his discussion Todorov treats the works of such writers as Aristotle, Cicero, Quintilian, Augustine, Condillac, Lessing, Diderot, Goethe, Novalis, the Schlegel brothers, Levy-Bruhl, Freud, Saussure, and Jakobson.
Download or read book Symbols of the Sacred written by Louis K. Dupré and published by Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing. This book was released on 2000 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Symbols of the Sacred gathers four classic essays by Louis Dupr on the role of symbols in our understanding of the sacred and on their fundamental importance to religious consciousness. A leading philosopher of religion, Dupr here discusses the nature of religious symbols, the importance of language for capturing symbolic meaning, the ancient link between art and expressions of the sacred, and the vital relationship between religious symbol and myth. The volume concludes with a powerful reflection on the innate capacity of human minds to grasp the transcendent. Elegantly expressed, conversant with a wide range of thinkers, and marked by a lifetime of reflection on the subject, Symbols of the Sacred offers profound insights into the religious dimension of human life.
Download or read book The Philosophy of Symbolic Forms written by Ernst Cassirer and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 1953-01-01 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The symbolic form has long been considered by many who knew it in the original German as the greatest of Ernst Cassirer's works. Into it he poured all the resources of his vast learning about language, myth, religion, art, and science- the various creative symbolizing activities and constructions through which man has expressed himself and given intelligible objective form to his experience.
Download or read book On Symbolic Representation of Religion Zur symbolischen Repr sentation von Religion written by Hubertus G. Hubbeling and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2020-05-18 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: No detailed description available for "On Symbolic Representation of Religion / Zur symbolischen Repräsentation von Religion".
Download or read book Symbolic Constitutionalization written by Marcelo Neves and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2022-01-02 with total page 193 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The subject of this book is the social and political meaning of constitutional texts to the detriment of their legal concretization. Focusing on the discrepancy between the hypertrophically symbolic function of constitutions and their insufficient legal concretization, it offers a critical counterpoint to constitutional theory that treats constitutional texts as a panacea to solving political, legal, and social problems. In contrast to the premises of Niklas Luhmann's systems theory regarding law and constitution in world's society, symbolic constitutionalization is approached here in both a comprehensive and far-reaching perspective. Chapter 1 sets out the debate about symbolic legislation. Chapter 2 explains the notion of symbolic constitutionalization as a problem embracing the whole legal system. Chapter 3 approaches the issue in terms of allopoiesis of law, characterizing it primarily as a problem in peripheral modernity and referring to the Brazilian experience. The final chapter discusses the tendency to a symbolic constitutionalization of world society in the scope of a paradoxical peripheralization of the centre.
