Index

Aesthetics: Goethe on, 83; historical development of, 7; Humboldt on, 105; Kant on, 8, 104, 105; and natural truth, 270; and Plato, 217, 218, 231, 234, 241; speculative, 255; symbolic form in, 76, 257, 271; and theoretical space, 317–333; Vischer on, 254

African languages, 14–15, 41, 175n52

African religions, 148, 184

Akkad, 29

Alberti, Leon Battista, 248, 310

Algebra, 86

Algonquin Indians, 184, 190, 190n73

All Souls College at Oxford, xvi

American languages, 14–15, 41

Amurru, i.e., Syria and Palestine, 29

Analytic-scientific concept of causality, 93–94, 104, 288

Ancient city of Mexico, 27

Ancient Mexicans’ “Tonalamatl,” 27

Animate, 14, 15–16, 16n16, 19, 24, 184, 185–186

Antiquity, 32, 73, 86, 99, 132, 246–248

Architectonic structure of knowledge, 79, 104, 270, 317

Architecture, 327, 336

Aristotle, 3, 84

Assyria, 32, 199

Astrology and astrological thought: Babylonian, 27–28, 29; causality in, 32–33, 45; classification in, 29–31, 37; concept of form in, 37–38; determinism in, 47–48, 55; geographic signification in, 29; Greek, 29; Kepler on, 52; lawfulness of events in, 34, 42; medieval Christian, 32; sacred numbers of, 50; structure of spatial-consciousness in, 26–27, 29–30, 40; Warburg on, 48–49; worldview of, 36–37

Augustine, 55, 217, 243, 330

Auseinanderlegung, xi, xiii, xxviii–xxix, 21, 289

Australia, native tribes of, 18–20, 23, 56–59, 165, 174, 184

Babylonian astrology, 27–28, 29

Baillie, James, xxx

Bantu languages, 12, 12n7, 13–14, 165, 188–190, 191n75

Baumgarten, Alexander, 7, 8

Bedeutung. See Signification

Being and Time (Heidegger), xv

Bergson, Henri-Louis, xiii, xv, xxiii

Berkeley, George, 99, 109–110

Berlin Academy of Sciences, 108

Bernhardi, Theodor Von, 127

Bibliothèque Nationale de Paris, xv

Biological concepts of form, 8, 9, 37

Boolean logic, 256

Bopps, Franz, 127

Brahman, 17, 196, 333

Brahmanic cult, 53–54

Bringing forth, xxv, 120, 347

Brugmann, Karl, 11

Bruno, Giordano, 243

Bücher, Karl, 303

Budge, Ernest Wallis, 209n105

Calculus, 86

Calvin, John, 55

Cartesian philosophy, 107, 244

The Case of Jacques Rousseau (Cassirer), xv

Categories: in Aristotelian logic, 320; grammatical, 190; Kant’s use of, 114, 120; of lawfulness of events, 34; of mythical consciousness, 9–10, 15, 20, 93; of relation, 123; temporal determinations of, 43

Causality: analytic-scientific concept of, 93–94, 104, 288; astrological, 32–33, 45; categorization of, 46, 93; in Cusa’s theory of God, 249; Kantian, 43, 293; magical, 45, 287–288, 293; mathematical concept of, 104; in mythical thought, 42–43, 44, 47; objective, 294; scientific concept of, 93–94, 288

“Cause” [Ursache], 33–34, 287

Characteristica generalis, 107

Cherokee Indians, 182

Christianity, 89–90

Chrysippus, 84

Cicero, 246

Classes of nouns, 14

Classical physics, 320–321

Classification: astrological, 29–31, 37; in Chinese thought, 28; linguistic, 7, 12, 14, 17, 25, 41; logical, 3; methodology of, 17; temporal, 27, 29–30; totemic, xxxi, 18–23, 26, 36, 60–63, 67, 168

Class of the elect, 55

Codrington, Robert Henry, 183–184, 185, 197

Cohen, Hermann, ix, 4

Coincidentia oppositorum, 46

Combination [Zusammenfassen], xxi, 127

Combination [Zusammenfassung], xxi–xxii, 8–9, 97, 142, 151, 187, 191

Comparative mythology, 74

“The Concept of the Symbolic Form in the Construction of the Human Sciences” (Cassirer), 72–100

Condillac, Étienne Bonnot de, 110, 111

Consistence, xxvii, 21, 91, 110, 262, 294, 340, 342

Copernican Revolution, 136

Copy theory, 84–85

Cora Indians, 140, 182, 209, 211

Cosmogony, 33, 93, 171

Cratylus (Plato), xv, 132, 177

Critique of Pure Reason (Kant), xxii, xxvi, 42–43, 101, 104, 105, 107, 113, 117, 129, 335

Culture and Religion of Primitive Man (Danzel), 285

Curtius, Georg, 80

Cushing, Frank Hamilton, 24, 25, 59–67, 326

Dæmons, 49, 132, 145, 213, 296

Danzel, Theodor-Wilhelm, 285

de Groot, Johann Jakob Maria, 68–69

Demosthenes, 104

Dempwolff, Otto, 2, 22n22, 166n30

Descartes, Réné, 6, 50–51, 85, 107, 138, 244–245, 265. See also Cartesian philosophy

Dessauer, Friedrich, 309n38

Dialectical method, 3, 5, 214, 227, 233, 350

Dialectician, 215, 222–224, 227–229, 231–232, 235, 239–240, 324

Dieterich, Albrecht, 176–177

Differential quotients, 35

Dilthey, Wilhelm, xiii, xxiii

Drama, xviii, 66, 330–332, 355

Drawida language, 15

Dunlavey, Wilson, xviii

Durkheim, Émile, 18, 26

Dvipas, 28

Eiffel, Gustave, 312

Election of grace doctrine, 55

Elementary Forms of Religious Life (Durkheim), 18–19

Eloquence, 246

Empathy, 10, 261

Energeia [Activity], xxiv, 119, 129, 222

Enlightenment philosophy, xxv, 110, 111–112, 113, 157, 279

Epicurean, 112

Ereignis [Event], 49, 356

Ergon [Work], xxiv, 119, 129

Essai sur l’origine des langues (Rousseau), 112

An Essay on Man (Cassirer), xvii, xxx

“Essay on the Basque Language and Nation” (Humboldt), 115

Ethics: in Kantian philosophy, 102–104, 105, 114; and language, 168, 349–350; in Platonic philosophy, 219, 221–222, 234; and technology, 279, 311, 314

Eudoxus, 29

Event [Ereignis], 49, 356

Ewe language, 80

Eyth, Max, 277–278, 281–282

Fantasy: artistic, 358; and concept of form, 7, 34; and consciousness, 355; linguistic, 137, 186, 201–203, 356; logic of, 8; Plato on, 214, 228, 233; power of, 10–11; and symbolic form, 89, 93; and theoretical space, 324, 327–328

Fate [Geschicks], 32, 47, 50–51, 55, 145, 217, 273

Fichte, Johann Gottlieb, xxiv, xxv, 5

Ficino, Marsilio, 32, 217, 243

Finite, 44, 109, 115, 197–198, 251, 256

Fison, Lorimer, 18

Forster, Lerke, xviii

Foundational figure, 35

Franklin, Benjamin, 283

Frazer, J. G., 287, 293

Freedom: in aesthetic space, 328; Bildung essential to, xxv; consciousness of, 296; and ethics, 102–103, 104; and language, 122, 152; of philosophical thought, 280; in servitude, 315; and technology, 305–306, 313

French Enlightenment philosophy, 110

Funeral rites, 23

Gabelentz, Georg van der, 173

Galileo, 34, 36, 217, 248, 307

Gamutch, 19, 23, 58

Gender, 10–13, 12n7, 15–16, 15n13, 167–168

General theory of relativity, 45, 87

Geometry, 86

German Grammar (Grimm), 10

German Society of Psychology, xii

Gesamtheit: and aesthetics, 319, 345; defined, xxx; and form of concept, 6, 9, 10, 14–15, 23, 40; and language, 140, 151, 153, 178; and symbolic form, 87, 92, 94, 99–100; and technology, 285, 289, 300

Geschicks. See Fate

Gestalt psychology, xxvi

Gewalt. See Violent power

Giesebrecht, Wilhelm von, 176

Gillen, Francis James, 18

Gnosticism, 32, 32n38

Goethe: concept of form, 38–39

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von: on aesthetics, 324, 331; on human nature, 281, 296, 300, 307; and language, 153–155, 200; and Platonic philosophy, 216, 217, 235; on symbolic form, 76, 83, 84, 88, 269

Gola language in Liberia, 15

Gorgias (Plato), 314

Grammaire générale et raisonnée, 7, 107

Grammatical gender, 10–13, 12n7, 15–16, 15n13, 167–168

Grassman, Hermann, 256

Greek geographers, 28–29

Greeks: ethics of, 349; and form of concept, 28–29; and language and myth, 145, 146, 148, 175, 177, 181. See also specific Greek philosophers

Grimm, Jacob, 10–11, 81

Hamann, Johann Georg, 92, 104, 113, 161

Hamburg Psychological Laboratory, 263

Hamitic-Semitic nouns, 12, 12n7

Hardmann, Eduard von, 301

Harmony, 49, 52, 202, 233, 306, 312

The Harmony of the World (Kepler), 52

Harnack, Adolf von, 90, 255

Harris, J. Arthur, 127

Haym, Rudolf, 105–106

Hegel, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich, xxiii–xxv, xxix, 5, 76, 85, 100, 255, 273

Heidegger, Martin, xi, xiii, xv, xxvii, xxxii, 345

Herder, Johann Gottfried: on aesthetics, 329; and Kantian philosophy, 105, 108, 111–114; and language, 157, 201, 202, 295, 299, 348; on symbolic form, 79

Hertz, Heinrich, 87, 257

Hilbert, David, 256–257

History: and ethics, 102–103; ideographic process of, 5; of language, 80, 133, 143–144, 146, 164, 345; logic of, 6; of mathematics, 86; myth taking form of, 44, 132; philosophy of, 104, 105, 112; of religions, 18, 73, 90, 142, 143–144, 148, 150, 169, 183–184, 194; science of, 4; and symbolic form, 72–73

History of New Linguistic Scientific Literature (Olschki), 248

Hobbes, Thomas, 44, 108

Hölderlin, Friedrich, 92, 213

Howitt, Alfred William, 18, 23, 56–59

Humanism, 246–247, 248, 299

Human sciences, xii, xiv, 4–5, 72–100, 102, 105, 143, 148, 274

Humboldt, Wilhelm von, xxv, 17, 74, 76–77, 79, 96, 99, 101–129, 137, 158, 245, 281, 284, 299, 336, 337–338, 347, 351

Humboldt’s philosophy of language, xiv, 79, 101–129

Husserl, Edmund, 260, 330

Hyle, 260, 330

Hyletic, 330

“Idea: A Concept of Art Theory” (Panofsky), xii

Idealism, xxiv, xxx, 52, 73, 85, 105–107, 114, 118, 218, 270, 279

Identity-philosophy, 114

Identity thinking, 47

Ideographic process of history, 5

Idolatry, 89

Imagination: and concept of form, 8, 11, 13, 17–18, 40, 42; and language, 142, 252; and symbolic form, 76, 94, 96

Inanimate, 14, 15–16, 16n16, 19, 24, 184, 185–186

Indian languages, 14, 24, 64, 97, 165, 188

Indo-European language, 11–12, 12n7, 13

Indo-European religions, 141

Inductive reasoning, 39–40

Infinite, 44, 109, 115, 197–198, 251, 256

Inflexive languages, 125

Inner form, 123, 226

Inner form of language, 7, 122, 123, 158

Inner simulacrum, 87

Intellectual synthesis, 42

Introduction to Developmental Psychology (Werner), xii

Introduction to the Philosophy of Myth (Schelling), 90

Intuition, 22

Iroquois Indians, 184

Jansenius, Cornelius, 55

Judgment: and concept of form, 7–8; in Kantian philosophy, 113, 117, 119; and language, 128, 131, 152; and symbolic form, 94, 97; and technology, 280–281, 280n8, 293, 309, 313

Justi, Karl, 231

Justification, 2

Kabbala, 52

Kant, Immanuel: Cassirer on, x; on causality, 293; and concept of form, 3–4, 8, 43, 44; and Humboldt’s philosophy of language, xiv, 101–129; and language, xx–xxii, 153, 179, 193, 274; on objects, 342; and symbolic form, 85, 260, 308, 315; on theoretical space, 327

Kant and the Problem of Mathematics (Heidegger), xi

Kapp, Ernst, 300–301, 302

Kawi-Werk (Humboldt), 17

Kepler, Johannes, 33, 34, 52, 217

Keshvars, 28

Kestner, Johann Christian, 76

Klages, Ludwig, xix, 298

Knowledge [Wissen]: and dialectic, 3, 227; Erkenntnis differentiated from, xxii–xxiii; exactness of, 3; as fiction, 136; and form of concept, 6, 7; Kant on, 101–103, 108, 116; and language, 247, 257, 335, 338, 340; and mathematics, 103; methodology of, 214–215, 216; modes of, xxii–xxiii, 6; objectivity of, 85, 101; Plato on, 219–222, 227; and technology, 273, 282, 300

Köhler, Wolfgang, xi

Kroeber, A., 24

Krois, John Michael, ix, xviii

Krokitch, 19, 23, 57–59

Kuhn, Adalbert, 202

Lambert, Johann Heinrich, 107

Language and speech: critique of, 99; and formation of concept, 10–18; fundamental ideas of, 73; Humboldt’s philosophy of, 101–129; Indo-European, 11–12, 12n7, 13; linguistic classification, 7, 12, 14, 17, 25, 41; and modern philosophy, 244–253; and myth, 130–213; and objects, 334–362; onomatopoeic origin theory of, 79, 81; of poetry, 91; polysynthetic linguistic practice, 97; structure of, 6; symbolic forms in, 78; translation notes, xviii–xxxiii

Language of the people, 248

Langues bien faites, 111

Latin, xxi, 30, 141, 158, 246–248

Lebensphilosophie, xiii, xv, xvi, xxiv, 274

Lectures on the Origin and Development of Religion (Müller), 197

Leibniz, Gottfried Wilhelm, 3, 44, 50, 85, 86, 107, 110, 256, 265, 309, 321, 326

Leonardo da Vinci, 307, 310

Lessing, Gotthold Ephraim, 271, 329, 330

Lewin, Kurt, xi

Life-form, 112, 120

Lingua universalis, 107, 265

Linguistic-aesthetic phantasy, 11

Locke, John, 108–109, 111, 265

Logic: and aesthetics, 7; categorization of, 9–10; and form of concept, 2–4, 6–7, 43, 55; and grammar, 107–108; Hegelian, 5; of history, 6; of human sciences, 5; of inventing, 110; Kantian, 119; and language, 10, 16, 117, 143, 144, 150–151, 206–207; of myth, 8, 46; Platonic, 222, 311; and rhetoric, 247; symbolic, 256–257, 265; and theoretical space, 319–320, 321

The Logic of the Cultural Sciences (Cassirer), xvi

Luther, Martin, 55, 90

Lyric poet, 213, 331

Macrocosm and the microcosm, 37, 40, 42, 50

Magical causality, 45, 287–288, 293

Magical-mythical, 21, 91, 94, 213, 271, 285, 291, 294, 326

Magical rites, 20

Magical sympathy, 327

The Magic Art (Frazer), 287

Magic causality, 45

Malay Sapi, 21

Malebranche, Nicolas, 243

Mallera group, 20, 56–57

Manilius, Marcus, 51

Marind-Anim in Dutch South New Guinea, 20–21, 23n23, 59

Mars, the star of Amurru, 29–30

Marx, Karl, xxiv, 302

Mathematical causality, 104

Mathematical science of nature, 3–4, 6, 50, 52, 102, 252

Mathesis universalis, 51–52, 321

Matthews, R. H., 18

Maupertuis, Pierre Louis, 110

McGee, William John, 187–188

Mechanics of the heavens, 35

Medieval Christian astrology, 32

Medius terminus, 34

Meier, Georg Friedrich, 8

Meinhof, Carl, xi, 2, 12n7, 22n22, 175n52, 189, 191n75

Melanesian languages, 13, 183–184, 197

The Melanesians: Studies in their Anthropology and Folk-Lore (Codrington), 183

Metamorphosis, 39, 76, 154, 275, 291, 296, 347

Metaphorical thought, 201, 202

Methodology, 2, 5, 17, 39–40, 44, 153, 214, 362

Mindfulness, 112–113, 157, 273–274, 278, 319, 348

Mithras Liturgy (Dieterich), 176–177

Modern phenomenology, 330

Modern sociology, 26, 64

Modes of life, 26

Monotheism, 89

Morphe, 260, 330

Morphology, 74

Müller, Max, 132, 133–134, 137, 197, 202

Mysticism, 40, 48, 100, 193, 359

Myth of the State (Cassirer), xvi, xvii, xviii, xxx

Names of God in the Old Testament (Giesebrecht), 176

Names of the Gods (Usener), 142

Name taboos, 175, 175n52

Negative theology, 250

Neoplatonic, 32

Newtonian physics, 266

Ngaui, 23, 57–58

Nicholas of Cusa, 3, 248–252; theory of God, 249–250, 251; theory of language, 248–249, 251–252

Noetic, 227, 330

Nominalist theories, 19, 108

Nominative subject, 12

Objective accusative, 12

Objective causality, 294

Objectivity: and aesthetics, 318, 321–322, 328; of being, 103; Kantian, 102, 107, 122, 128, 129; of knowledge, 85, 101; and language, 213; of objects, 335, 345, 347; style as expression of, 83; and symbolic form, 269–270, 271; and theoretical space, 318, 321–322

Olschki, Leonardo, 248, 307

On Dualism (Humboldt), 74

On the Origin of Language (Herder), 201–202

On the Relationship of the Adverbs of Place to the Pronoun in Several Languages (Humboldt), 74, 125

Organization of space, 23, 24

Originary-phenomena, 136, 178, 251

The Origin of Language (Herder), 111, 348

Orphic originary words, 38

Painting, 234, 269, 327, 329, 330, 336

Panofsky, Erwin, xii, 2, 243n42

Pars pro toto, 22, 45, 207

Pascal, Blaise, 55

Paul, Hermann, 80

Paul, Jean, 199

Perseus for Amurru, 29

Persians, 28, 54

Perspective as Symbolic Form (Panofsky), xii

Petrarch, 246

Phaedo (Plato), 225

Phaedrus (Plato), 130–131

Phenomenology, 1, 5, 148, 330

Philosophie der Technik (Dessauer), 309n38

Philosophy of Symbolic Forms (Cassirer), xiii, xiv–xv, 1

Philosophy of Technology (Kapp), 300

The Philosophy of the Enlightenment (Cassirer), xv

“Philosophy of the Unconscious” (Hardmann), 301

Phonetics, 74, 77, 79

Physics, 4, 45, 86–87, 96, 266–268

Planck, Max, 96

Plato: on beauty and art, xv, 214–243; on form of concept, 2–3; idealism of, 52, 270; on idea vs. appearance, 277, 323, 342; on language and myth, 130–131, 134, 196, 338; on symbolic form, 259; theory of ideas, 2

Platonic Renaissance in England (Cassirer), xv

Plejaden for Elam, 29

Ploucquet, Gottfried, 107

Plutarch, 330

“Poetry and Technology” (Eyth), 281–282

Polyonymy, 191

Polysynthetic linguistic practice, 97

Polytheism, 34

Port Royal, 107

Port-Royal Grammar, 10, 107

Positivism, 73, 99

Posterior Analytics (Aristotle), 3

Potentiality, 191, 191n74

Powell, John Wesley, 97

Power of the imagination, 17–18, 40, 42, 142

Prägung, 10

Predestination, 55

Prefixes, xxi–xxii, 12–14, 15, 17, 41, 189, 191n75, 321n3

Preuß, Konrad Theodor, 94

Principles of Mechanics (Hertz), 87, 257

Problem of Knowledge (Cassirer), xvi

Profane, 90, 184, 186, 191, 204, 255

Prophetic thought, 89

Protestantism, 90

Psychology: and astrology, 32; and causality, 94–95; and form of concept, 46; in Kantian philosophy, 119, 128; and language, 7, 17, 108, 109, 111, 138, 143; and objects, 334, 338, 339; in Platonic dialogues, 237; and symbolic form, 258, 261

Pythagorean, 52, 208, 219

Quintilian, Marcus Fabius, 210

Radii coelestes, 32

Rathenau, Walther, 313–314

Reduplication, 82

Relation [Relation], 47–48, 94, 123, 321

Religion: and causality, 49; and ethics, 54; and form of concept, 53; history of, 18, 73, 90, 142, 143–144, 148, 150, 169, 183–184, 194; Indo-European, 141; and Kantian philosophy, 104; and language, 130–213, 253; self-consciousness in, 89; structure of, 6; and symbolic form, 72, 89, 100, 255, 257; and theoretical space, 325; and totemic representation, xxxi, 18–23, 26, 36, 60–63, 67, 168

Renaissance, xxv, 34, 51, 236, 245–248, 307, 310

Repräsentant, 17, 155, 250, 256, 262

Republic (Plato), 223–224, 225, 229, 241

Rhetoric, 131, 209, 238, 246, 247

Riemannian space, 88

Rita (Indo-Germanic concept), 325

Roehl, Karl, 189

Rousseau, Jean-Jacques, 279, 313

Russell, Bertrand, 265

Sacred, 50, 52, 54, 169, 182, 184–186, 190–191, 195, 204, 255, 259, 328

Sago-Boan, 21

Samaveda, 54

Sanskrit, 123, 127–128, 133, 158

Sapi-Zé, 21

Saxl, Fritz, xi, 2

Schelling, Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph von, 5, 76, 90, 114–115, 202, 217

Schema, xii, xxxvi, 16, 23, 28, 31, 40, 42–47, 206, 217, 219, 226, 246, 266, 328, 342

Schematism, xxvi, 42, 44, 106, 114

Scherer, Wilhelm, 80

Schiller, Friedrich, xxv, 298–299, 328

Scholasticism, 3

Scientia generalis, 107

Sculpture, 327, 336

Seler, Eduard, 27

Semitic, 12, 12n7, 13

Serialization, 8

Seven against Thebes (Aeschylus), 181

Shakespeare, William, 332

Shambala language, 189

Signification [Bedeutung]: and language, 135; meaning differentiated from, xxxi; and presentation, xiii, xiv, 262; and symbolic form, 262

Signs: artistic, 271, 329, 330; and form of concept, 19, 50; linguistic, 77, 107, 109–112, 247; mathematical, 250, 265; and myth, 135, 208, 212; of numbers, 50; phonetic, 77; and symbolic form, 76–77, 86, 89, 92, 100, 256–257; theory of, 257; and worldviews, 284, 336; of zodiac, 31

Simmel, Georg, xiii, xv, xxiii, 305

Sioux Indians, 184, 187–188

Smith, Norman Kemp, xxii

Society for Comparative Mythology, 74

Society for Religious Studies, 1

Sociology, 26, 64

Socratic theory, 3, 216, 236, 350

Söderblom, Nathan, 186

South Andaman, 41

Spencer, Herbert, 132

Spencer, Walter Baldwin, 18

Spieth, Jakob, 148–149

Spinoza, Baruch de, 44, 114, 261, 280

Spranger, Eduard, 106

Steinthal, H., 106–107, 114

Stern, William, xi, xii

Stevenson, S., 24

Stoicism, 79, 84

Strife, xvii–xviii, xx, xxviii–xxix, 325

Structural concepts, 37, 40

“Structuralism in Modern Linguistics” (Cassirer), xxvi

Style, xix, 68, 83–84, 88, 135, 238, 246, 248, 259, 270–271

Subartu, 29

Subspecies, 38, 155

Substance and Function (Cassirer), x

Substantive-class, 13

Sulzer, Johann Georg, 108

Süssmilch, Johann Peter, 110

Su Wen, 28, 68

Symbolic form: in aesthetics, 76, 257, 271; and fantasy, 89, 93; and history, 72–73; in human sciences, 72–100; and language, 78; and objectivity, 269–270, 271; in philosophical system, 254–271; Plato on, 259; and psychology, 258, 261; and religion, 72, 89, 100, 255, 257; and signification, 262; and signs, 76–77, 86, 89, 92, 100, 256–257; and technology, 272–316

Symbolic logic, 256–257, 265

Synthesis: and causality, 293; and concept of form, 8, 42–43; in Kantian philosophy, 102–103, 118, 122; and language, 152; and objects, xxi, 335, 337, 359; in Platonic philosophy, 215; and symbolic form, 96–97

Tanck, Joachim, 52

Tao, 28, 68

Technology of myth, xviii

Teleology, 112

Temporal classification, 27, 29–30

Tetens, Johannes Nikolaus, 8, 108

Theogony, 33, 93

“Theoretical” space, 317–333

Thing-in-itself, 85, 124

Thinking in figures, 39

Timaeus (Plato), 225, 226–227

Ton-Boan, 21

Totality [Ganzen], 12, 36

Totem, 18, 21, 36, 57–63, 66–67, 208

Totemic, xxxi, 18–23, 26, 36, 60–63, 67, 168

Transcendental method, x, xv, 4, 8, 102, 106, 117, 119, 260, 274, 279

Tschirnhaus, Ehrenfried Walther von, 44

Tycho Brahe, 33

Uexküll, Johann Jakob von, xi, xiii

Uitoto Indians, 169, 182

Understanding, modes of, xxii–xxiii

University of Frankfurt, xv

University of Göteborg, xvi

University of Hamburg, ix, x–xi, xv–xvi, 2

Ural-Altaic group, 41

Urbunna type, 18

Ursache [“Cause”], 33–34, 287

Usener, Hermann, 142–150, 160, 162, 167, 181, 183, 205, 212

Valla, Lorenzo, 246–247

Vedic religion, 53, 132, 195

Verene, Donald Phillip, xviii

Verity names, 67

Vico, Giambattista, 4–5, 79

Vieta, François, 50, 86

Violent power [Gewalt]: and aesthetics, 326, 328; defined, xxxii; and form of concept, 22; and language, 172, 176, 180, 199, 208; of mythical consciousness, xvi; and objects, 350; and symbolic form, 90–91; and technology, 287

Vischer, Friedrich Theodor, 76, 254

Visual language, 109

Volgare, 248

von Hildebrand, Adolf, 318, 336

von Nettesheim, Agrippa, 37

Voßler, Karl, 73

Wackelbura, 20

Warburg, Aby, xi, 48–49

Warburg Library, ix–xi, xviii, 2, 72

Warburton, Bishop, 110

Werner, Heinz, xi, xii, 263

Wertheimer, M., xxvi

Wesen: and aesthetics, 318, 327; defined, xxxi; and form of concept, 14–15, 19, 21–24, 48–50; and language, 145–149, 161, 163, 169, 176–177, 195, 212, 251; and objects, 358–359; and symbolic form, 94, 263, 268; and technology, 299

Westermann, Dietrich, 15, 80

Whitehead, Alfred North, 322

Wind, Edgar, xi

Wirz, Paul, 20–21, 22, 59

Wissen. See Knowledge

Wissowa, Georg, 162

Wootaroo, 19

Work and Rhythm (Bücher), 303

Work [Ergon], xxiv, 119, 129

World-egg or world-ash, 33

Yajurveda, 54

Yungaroo, 19

Zarathustra, 54

Zellers, Eduard, 254

Zuñi Indians, 24–27, 36, 59–67, 326

Zusammenfassen [Combination], xxi, 127

Zusammenfassung [Combination], xxi–xxii, 8–9, 97, 142, 151, 187, 191

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