Introduction to Mythological Inspirations for Organizational Realities

Monika Kostera

A chapter in Mythical Inspirations for Organizational Realities, 2008, pp 9-15 from Palgrave Macmillan

Abstract: Abstract Ernst Cassirer (1946) describes myth as a mode of communication, developing alongside profane language in prehistoric times. Myth is not concerned about material reality or what actually happened in the outside world. What it refers to, instead, is an internal, spiritual reality — an experience of the divine that is beyond language. Therefore myth is a language of symbols and metaphors: [N]o matter how widely the contents of myth and language may differ, yet the same form of mental conception is operative in both. It is the form which one may denote as metaphorical thinking; the nature and meaning of metaphor is what we must start with if we want to find, on the one hand, the unity of the verbal and the mythical worlds and, on the other, their differences. (Cassirer, 1946, p. 84)

Keywords: Organizational Reality; Spiritual Reality; Metaphorical Thinking; Mainstream Discourse; Heavy Metal Music (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2008
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