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(1974) Symbol and interpretation, Dordrecht, Springer.
A confrontation with archaic symbolism has brought new life to modern culture. Equally, an encounter of modern western culture with its own indigenous historical symbols may facilitate a similar renewal. The work of Paul Ricoeur can be conceived of as continuous with that of Mircea Eliade because it brings the threefold issue of the meaning of the symbol, a hermeneutic of the symbol, as well as the anthropological and linguistic consequences of the discovery of the symbol into a strictly philosophical framework. Hence, our original quest for an understanding of the meaning of symbols, the search for a framework for interpretation, will be furthered by a consideration of the work of Paul Ricoeur.
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DOI: 10.1007/978-94-010-1594-3_4
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Rasmussen, D. (1974). Paul Ricoeur: the anthropological necessity of a special language, in Symbol and interpretation, Dordrecht, Springer, pp. 38-51.
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