May, Rollo creator ed. text nyu New York G. Braziller 1960 monographic eng

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253 p. 22 cm. Contents: The significance of symbols / Rollo May -- The nature of the symbol / Erich Kahler -- The religious symbol / Paul Tillich -- The cross:social trauma or redemption / Amos N. Wilder -- On the first three chapters of Genesis / Kenneth Burke -- The pattern of religious organization in the United States / Talcott Parsons -- The broken center: a definition of the crisis of values in modern literature / Nathan A. Scott, Jr. -- The sense of poetry: Shakespeare's "The phoenix and the turtle" / I.A. Richards -- The representation of nature in contemporary physics / Werner Heisenberg -- Uses of symbolism / A.N. Whitehead. Six of the nine "essays ... were originally published in Daedalus, the journal of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, in the issue devoted to 'Symbolism in religion and literature' (vol. 87, no. 3)" Symbolism Symbolism in literature BL 600 .M35 1960 246 59008842 DLC 720107 20151111171648.0 4530091