PREMIUM-Ep. 291: Cassirer and Langer on Myth and Ritual (Part Two)

The Partially Examined Life Philosophy Podcast

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🗓️ 18 April 2022

⏱️ 13 minutes

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Continuing our discussion on the symbolic value of religion and its antecedents, primary at this point discussing Susanne Langer's Philosophy in a New Key, ch. 7.

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0:00.0	The partially examined life philosophy podcast Part 1 episodes are designed to be self-contained,
0:12.7	fully satisfying experiences in themselves.
0:15.6	But for hardcore philosophy fans, we record for another hour or so to release behind
0:20.0	our various paywalls to folks that pitch in to help us make this show.
0:24.1	What you're about to hear is a preview of one of these Part 2 episodes, and hope you
0:27.7	enjoy it.
0:28.7	You're listening to the partially examined life.
0:30.6	This is episode 291 Part 2.
0:34.4	We've been discussing Cacier's essay on man and langers philosophy in a new key.
0:39.0	The chapters on mythology and religion and ritual.
0:43.5	I guess I want to start with the point I left last time, which is the relationship of
0:48.0	all this to psychology that I don't know.
0:50.3	Cacier is quoting Dirk Heim and maybe is more on board with the anti-psychologism.
0:55.1	He says specifically that we need to understand the social character of man, social physics
1:00.2	that that is his whole point of his project in chapter 6.
1:04.2	He's laying that out.
1:05.6	Whereas langer seems, I don't know, hostile to psychoanalysis, for instance, and explicitly
1:11.2	says like she's trying to be one of the few people who's actually cared about logic and
1:17.4	logical positivism and friggin' wrestle and all that stuff.
1:20.6	And psychoanalysis on the other side, these things that were going on at the same time
1:25.0	historically that more people should have been in the know about both of them and trying
1:29.3	to link them together.
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