Myth and Modernity

Postcritical Reflections

AvMilton Scarborough

Inbunden, Engelska, 1994

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This book surveys selected modern theories of myth from philosophy, religion, anthropology, sociology, and psychoanalysis to demonstrate a common commitment to a dualistic ontology and/or epistemology. With help from the work of Maurice Merleau-Ponty and Michael Polanyi, the author proposes a new theory of myth which goes beyond these dualisms. It argues that although the Enlightenment sought to banish myth, it was itself animated by myths which it could neither recognize nor accredit. Moreover, it argues that myth is a primordial, articulate grasp of the life-world and is essential for providing a fundamental orientation to all human activities, including theorizing. The myths of Timaeus and Genesis are shown tacitly to shape modernity's most sophisticated theories in science and philosophy, including the criteria for truth.

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Utgivningsdatum:1994-07-01
Mått:153 x 229 x 9 mm
Vikt:386 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Serie:SUNY series, The Margins of Literature
Antal sidor:161
Förlag:State University of New York Press
ISBN:9780791418796

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Milton Scarborough is Professor of Philosophy and Religion at Centre College.

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"This book is an important voice in the current debate about the implications of pluralism, relativism, and nihilism for the culture and for the educational enterprise. But the fundamental contribution of the book is its hypothesis about how we think." — William Elford Rogers, Furman University

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Acknowledgments1. Modernity and the Crisis of Myth 2. Modernity on Myth The Nature of ModernityModernity and MythOutside DownMax Mueller: Myth as Explanation for Aryan MetaphorsThe English Anthropolgoists: Myth as Animism, Totemism, and MagicOutside MiddleBronislaw Malinowski: Myth as Social CharterOutside UpC.S. Lewis: Myth as Fable and FactInside UpErnst Cassirer: Myth as an Organ of Self-RevelationClaude Levi-Strauss: Myth as Mediator between Culture and NatureInside MiddleRudolf Bultmann: Myths as Possibilities for Human ExistenceInside DownSigmund Freud: Myth as Repressed Libido Carl Jung: Myth as Archtypal MeaningProblems with Modern Myth Theories 3. Myth at the Margins of Modernity Myth at the Margins of Modern ThoughtMircea Eliade: Myths as Collective Participation in Common SymbolsTaylor Stevenson: History as MythMichael Novak: Myths as Guiding Images, Symbols, and ValuesMyth at the Margins of Scientific ThoughtHarvey Cox: Genesis as the Disenchantment of NatureStephen Toumin: Myth as the Misuse of Scientific ResultsMichael Foster: Myths as Determinants of Scientific MethodLangdon Gilkey: Myths as Multivalent Symbols of the TranscendentEdward Maziarz: Myth and Science as Formal Symbolic Structures 4. Myth in the Heart of Modernity The TimaeusGenesisTimaeus versus GenesisBig Bang versus Existentialism: AnthropologyPhenomenology versus History of Religions: MethodologyCovering Law versus Continuous Series Explanations: The Logic of Scientific ExplanationMyth versus History in Barthes' Structural LinguisticsThe Tacit DimensionTimaeus versus Genesis in Historial Perspective 5. Toward a Postcritical Understanding of Myth Contemporary Physics and Cartesian DualismThe Wave-Particle Dualism and Scientific RepresentationThe Uncertainty PrincipleGoedel's ProofThe Phenomenological TurnThe Nature of MythMyth and TruthThe Truth of Myth in GeneralThe Truth of the Timaues and Genesis 6. Epilogue The Visual ImaginationNaming the Nomad Notes Index