MITO NÓRDICO E A CONSTITUIÇÃO DO REAL SEGUNDO ERNST CASSIRER

Abstract

The search to understand the ways of how reality manifests, with its purpose to put man in his environment and the significance of the phenomena, starting from his apprehension, has taken to to several analysis and criticism, among them the work of Ernst Cassirer, Language and Myth. The symbolic forms, Cassirer's study object, include clearly that there is a diversity of methods and models which are a source of knowledge about reality. The myth is one of the symbolic forms which provides absorption of the ways the real presents itself. Norse mythology is introduced as an exemplary system of how the mythical universe gets involved with the synthesis formation of the existence and hence the reality