Cassirer is important in 20th Century philosophy for the attention he gives to the fundamental relationship between myth and language. For Cassirer, myth is a non-subjective form of discourse wherein the origin of language coincides with both the human-divine encounter and the event of being itself. In this article, I trace the disagreement between Cassirer and Heidegger on the nature of the magical (or “primitive”) sign, which is at the heart of mythical discourse. While Heidegger initially argues that this form of sign is structurally impossible on the basis of his accounts of signs and language in Being and Time , he later comes to recognize that he had not properly accounted for its possibility within his phenomenological deduction. I conclude by describing how Heidegger’s notion of poetry eventually comes into alignment with the way Cassirer describes the function of myth and the magical sign.

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神话、原始符号、诗歌：从卡西尔到海德格尔

卡西尔在 20 世纪哲学中很重要，因为他关注神话和语言之间的基本关系。对于卡西尔来说，神话是一种非主观的话语形式，其中语言的起源与人与神的相遇和存在本身的事件同时发生。在这篇文章中，我追溯了卡西尔和海德格尔在魔法（或“原始”）符号本质上的分歧，这是神话话语的核心。虽然海德格尔最初根据他在《存在与时间》中对符号和语言的描述认为这种形式的符号在结构上是不可能的，但他后来意识到他没有在他的现象学演绎中正确地解释它的可能性。