What to Read After Language and Myth
Readers who loved Language and Myth by Ernst Cassirer keep reaching for these 24 books. This list is built from where Language and Myth is read alongside other books across reader co-reads and book lists. The more independent sources agree on a title, the higher it ranks.
Books to read after Language and Myth
A History of Islamic philosophy. --
The essential Plotinus
Ressentiment
Freud and philosophy
The shape of ancient thought
Modes of Thought
The ethics of authenticity
Myth and meaning
The discovery of the mind
Gone from my sight
The myth of the eternal return, or, Cosmos and history
An Essay on Man
The sacred and the profane
Leviathan
The Universe in a Nutshell
The Power of Myth
Antigone
The Myth of Sisyphus and Other Essays
Notes From Underground, White Nights, The Dream of a Ridiculous Man, and Selections From the House of the Dead
The Illustrated Man
Der Steppenwolf
The Prince
Guns, germs, and steel
Candide