Symbols play an integral role in branding programs. More often than not, symbols are used alongside logotypes, the two working in tandem to illustrate the values and qualities of a brand to its audience. However, symbols can be hugely effective on their own, providing organizations and brands with marks that provide an instantly recognizable signifier when seen independently of...(展开全部)

Symbols play an integral role in branding programs. More often than not, symbols are used alongside logotypes, the two working in tandem to illustrate the values and qualities of a brand to its audience. However, symbols can be hugely effective on their own, providing organizations and brands with marks that provide an instantly recognizable signifier when seen independently of...(展开全部)

Symbols play an integral role in branding programs. This book explores the visual language of symbols according to their most basic element: form. Over 1,300 symbols from all over the world are here categorized by visual type, divested of all agendas, meanings, and messages that might be associated with them so that the effectiveness of their composition and impact can be asses...(展开全部)

In The Symbol Theory, Norbert Elias draws together three central themes. At the first level the book is concerned with symbols in relation to language, knowing and thinking. Secondly, Elias stresses that symbols are also tangible sound-patterns of human communication, made possible by the evolutionary biological precondition of human vocal apparatus. At a third level, the book ...(展开全部)

In this stunning follow-up to the global phenomenon The Da Vinci Code, Dan Brown demonstrates once again why he is the world's most popular thriller writer. The Lost Symbol is a masterstroke of storytelling, a deadly race through a real-world labyrinth of codes, secrets, and unseen truths. All under the watchful eye of Brown's most terrifying villain to date. Set within the hid...(展开全部)

In The Symbol Theory, Norbert Elias draws together three central themes. At the first level the book is concerned with symbols in relation to language, knowing and thinking. Secondly, Elias stresses that symbols are also tangible sound-patterns of human communication, made possible by the evolutionary biological precondition of human vocal apparatus. At a third level, the book ...(展开全部)

本书是卡西尔晚年最后七年间所作的讲演集，实际上是他一生思想的提炼和总结，其内容广泛涉及到文化、历史、艺术、政治神话，以及对人性、自由、社会等问题的探讨，其中心部分是他的文化-符号哲学。 ·文化哲学 作为哲学问题的哲学概念 作为文化哲学的批判唯心主义 ·历史哲学 笛卡尔、莱布尼茨、维柯 论黑格尔的国家理论 历史的哲学 ·语言与艺术 语言与艺术（I） 语言与艺术（II） 艺术的教育价值 ·国家的神话 哲学与政治 犹太教与现代政治神话 我们现代政治神话的技巧 ·译后记

Eugen Fink is considered one of the clearest interpreters of phenomenology and was the preferred conversational partner of Edmund Husserl and Martin Heidegger. In Play as Symbol of the World, Fink offers an original phenomenology of play as he attempts to understand the world through the experience of play. He affirms the philosophical significance of play, why it is more than ...(展开全部)

The author stresses the hidden manifestations of symbolism in Vergil's work. He investigates to what extent the basic themes of the Aeneid and the fortunes and characters of its leading figures are expressed through imagery. This approach not only increases our understanding of Vergil, but clarifies several fundamental problems in the art of poetry.

The papers in this volume of Ernst Cassirer's unpublished works give insight into the major issues that engaged Cassirer's interest between 1935 and 1945. Ernst Cassirer has been read and studied by generations of students, and in this book they will find illuminations, in a more informal voice, of the major themes in Cassirer's work. New readers will be introduced to the great...(展开全部)