Books by Cyril Levitt

Myth and Ideology develops a general theory of myth by reviewing esoteric and exoteric myths from many parts of the world from ancient times to the late twentieth century, highlighting the major approaches to the study of myth and ideology.

Authors Cyril Levitt and William Shaffir, carefully sifting fact from fiction, provide a compelling perspective on how ordinary Canadians reacted to the intensifying antisemitism in Europe.

Hostile and Malignant Prejudice: Psychoanalytic Approaches represents the leading edge of work in the field by members of the International Psychoanalytical Association's Committee on Prejudice. It pursues the issues surrounding hostile and malignant prejudice as defined in the first chapter by Henri Parens.

The author takes up the relations of thinking and knowing in conjunction with emotions, feelings and judgment and examines processes of abstraction as one of the key features of human being and knowing. In this book, he proposes noetics as a science of thinking and knowing and establishes its relation to natural sciences, human sciences, and arts.