Myth and the Limits of ReasonUniversity Press of America, 2004 - 170 pages This inquiry expands on ideas initially worked out in The Depictive Image: Metaphor and Literary Experience (University of Massachusetts Press; November 1988). This study demonstrates how authors as diverse as Kierkegaard, Unamuno, Henry James, and Margaret Atwood employ "mythemic figurations" in ways that disclose defining limits of discursive analytical reason in the domains, respectively, of religious, national-cultural, psychosocial, and psychobiological experience. This revised edition features extensive substantive and stylistic improvements that render the exposition more fully developed and accurate, and the prose more precise and readable. |
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The Legacy of MythosLogos Polarization | 55 |
FOUR | 81 |
Mythical Thinking | 91 |
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Abraham accounts of myth analysis analytical Aqedah articulated Atwood Blumenberg Cassirer Cassirer's Cervantes chapter classical cognitional concept consciousness context counter-rationalist critical mythemic figuration critique cultural depictive rationality dialectic disclose discursive reason doctrine Don Quixote doppelgänger dramatic Enlightenment epistemological Ernst Cassirer ethical reasoning euhemerist existential experience explain faith Fear and Trembling functioning of myth G. S. Kirk Giving Birth Golden Bowl Greek Hans Blumenberg Hatab hermeneutic historical human identify intellectual interpretation Jeanie Jeanie's Johannes de Silentio Kierkegaard Lévi-Strauss limits of discursive linguistic literary logic logothetic Maggie Malinowski meaning modern mythemic figuration modernist muthos myth as myth mythical thinking mythical thought mythologists mythology mythopoeia mythopoesis mythopoetic mythos and logos narrative Paul Ricoeur perception Phaedrus philosophical Plato post-Enlightenment Prelude of Fear rationalist myth theory reality reflection Ricoeur scientific self-reflexive sense Silentio Socrates speculative Stambovsky story structuralist structure Symbolism of Evil theories of myth theorists tradition transformative Unamuno understanding Xenophanes