Symbolism, its meaning and effect

By:

Whitehead, Alfred North

Material type: Text

TextNew York, NY Capricorn Books 1959Description: viii, 88pContent type:

text

Media type:

unmediated

Carrier type:

volume

Subject(s):

Symbolism (Psychology)

LOC classification:

BF458 .W5 1959

Abstract: '...not only considers the general problems of symbolism, but is also concerned with symbolism in relation to the problem of perception, to our capacity for knowledge of "the outside world."...shows that symbolism plays a dominant part in the way in which all higher organisms function and exist, and that it is potentially the cause of all progress, and the potential cause of fatal error.'

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Barbour-Page Lectures, University of Virginia, 1927.

'...not only considers the general problems of symbolism, but is also concerned with symbolism in relation to the problem of perception, to our capacity for knowledge of "the outside world."...shows that symbolism plays a dominant part in the way in which all higher organisms function and exist, and that it is potentially the cause of all progress, and the potential cause of fatal error.'

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