Die Seelenfl Sterin
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The Politics Of Myth
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Author : Robert Ellwood
language : en
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Release Date : 1999-08-26
The Politics Of Myth written by Robert Ellwood and has been published by State University of New York Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1999-08-26 with Religion categories.
The Politics of Myth examines the political views implicit in the mythological theories of three of the most widely read popularizers of myth in the twentieth century, C. G. Jung, Mircea Eliade, and Joseph Campbell. All three had intellectual roots in the anti-modern pessimism and romanticism that also helped give rise to European fascism, and all three have been accused of fascist and anti-Semitic sentiments. At the same time, they themselves tended toward individualistic views of the power of myth, believing that the world of ancient myth contained resources that could be of immense help to people baffled by the ambiguities and superficiality of modern life. Robert Ellwood details the life and thought of each mythologist and the intellectual and spiritual worlds within which they worked. He reviews the damaging charges that have been made about their politics, taking them seriously while endeavoring to put them in the context of the individual's entire career and lifetime contribution. Above all, he seeks to extract from their published work the view of the political world that seems most congruent with it.
Manufacturing Religion
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Author : Russell T. McCutcheon
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date : 1997-06-19
Manufacturing Religion written by Russell T. McCutcheon and has been published by Oxford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1997-06-19 with Religion categories.
In this new book, author Russell McCutcheon offers a powerful critique of traditional scholarship on religion, focusing on multiple interrelated targets. Most prominent among these are the History of Religions as a discipline; Mircea Eliade, one of the founders of the modern discipline; recent scholarship on Eliade's life and politics; contemporary textbooks on world religions; and the oft-repeated bromide that "religion" is a sui generis phenomenon. McCutcheon skillfully analyzes the ideological basis for and service of the sui generis argument, demonstrating that it has been used to constitute the field's object of study in a form that is ahistoric, apolitical, fetishized, and sacrosanct. As such, he charges, it has helped to create departments, jobs, and publication outlets for those who are comfortable with such a suspect construction, while establishing a disciplinary ethos of astounding theoretical naivete and a body of scholarship to match. Surveying the textbooks available for introductory courses in comparative religion, the author finds that they uniformly adopt the sui generis line and all that comes with it. As a result, he argues, they are not just uncritical (which helps keep them popular among the audiences for which they are intended, but badly disserve), but actively inhibit the emergence of critical perspectives and capacities. And on the geo-political scale, he contends, the study of religion as an ahistorical category participates in a larger system of political domination and economic and cultural imperialism.
The Study Of Religion Under The Impact Of Fascism
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Author : Horst Junginger
language : en
Publisher: BRILL
Release Date : 2008
The Study Of Religion Under The Impact Of Fascism written by Horst Junginger and has been published by BRILL this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008 with Religion categories.
Addressing the European study of religion in the interwar-period, these proceedings tackle one of the most problematic epochs of its history. The commonplace that understanding the present requires learning from the past is particularly true, as this case well illustrates.
Nietzsche
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Author : Rüdiger Safranski
language : en
Publisher: Granta Books
Release Date : 2003
Nietzsche written by Rüdiger Safranski and has been published by Granta Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2003 with Nietzsche, Friedrich Wilhelm, 1844-1900 categories.
Assessing Nietzche's morality, religion, and art, this seminal biography is essential reading for anyone studying the philosophy of history's most enigmatic and fascinating thinker.
Religion After Religion
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Author : Steven M. Wasserstrom
language : en
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Release Date : 1999-11-15
Religion After Religion written by Steven M. Wasserstrom and has been published by Princeton University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1999-11-15 with Religion categories.
By the end of World War II, religion appeared to be on the decline throughout the United States and Europe. Recent world events had cast doubt on the relevance of religious belief, and modernizing trends made religious rituals look out of place. It was in this atmosphere that the careers of Scholem, Eliade, and Corbin--the twentieth century's legendary scholars in the respective fields of Judaism, History of Religions, and Islam--converged and ultimately revolutionized how people thought about religion. Between 1949 and 1978, all three lectured to Carl Jung's famous Eranos circle in Ascona, Switzerland, where each in his own way came to identify the symbolism of mystical experience as a central element of his monotheistic tradition. In this, the first book ever to compare the paths taken by these thinkers, Steven Wasserstrom explores how they overturned traditional approaches to studying religion by de-emphasizing law, ritual, and social history and by extolling the role of myth and mysticism. The most controversial aspect of their theory of religion, Wasserstrom argues, is that it minimized the binding character of moral law associated with monotheism. The author focuses on the lectures delivered by Scholem, Eliade, and Corbin to the Eranos participants, but also shows how these scholars generated broader interest in their ideas through radio talks, poetry, novels, short stories, autobiographies, and interviews. He analyzes their conception of religion from a broadly integrated, comparative perspective, sets their distinctive thinking into historical and intellectual context, and interprets the striking success of their approaches.
Myth And Religion In Mircea Eliade
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Author : Douglas Allen
language : en
Publisher: Psychology Press
Release Date : 2002
Myth And Religion In Mircea Eliade written by Douglas Allen and has been published by Psychology Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2002 with History categories.
This is an interesting study with a great deal of information on Eliade's main themes and a detailed account of his understanding of myth.
The Disinherited Mind
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Author : Erich Heller
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1952
The Disinherited Mind written by Erich Heller and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1952 with Authors, German categories.
Prolegomena To The Study Of Greek Religion
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Author : Jane Ellen Harrison
language : en
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Release Date : 2021-03-09
Prolegomena To The Study Of Greek Religion written by Jane Ellen Harrison and has been published by Princeton University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-03-09 with Religion categories.
Jane Harrison examines the festivals of ancient Greek religion to identify the primitive "substratum" of ritual and its persistence in the realm of classical religious observance and literature. In Harrison's preface to this remarkable book, she writes that J. G. Frazer's work had become part and parcel of her "mental furniture" and that of others studying primitive religion. Today, those who write on ancient myth or ritual are bound to say the same about Harrison. Her essential ideas, best developed and most clearly put in the Prolegomena, have never been eclipsed.
The Beauty Of The Primitive
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Author : Andrei A. Znamenski
language : en
Publisher: OUP USA
Release Date : 2007-07-12
The Beauty Of The Primitive written by Andrei A. Znamenski and has been published by OUP USA this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007-07-12 with Body, Mind & Spirit categories.
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The Intellectuals And The Masses
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Author : John Carey
language : en
Publisher: Faber & Faber
Release Date : 2012-12-20
The Intellectuals And The Masses written by John Carey and has been published by Faber & Faber this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-12-20 with Literary Criticism categories.
Professor John Carey shows how early twentieth-century intellectuals imagined the 'masses' as semi-human swarms, drugged by popular newspapers and cinema, and ripe for extermination. Exposing the revulsion from common humanity in George Bernard Shaw, Ezra Pound, D. H. Lawrence, E. M. Forster, Virginia Woolf, H. G. Wells, Aldous Huxley, W. B. Yeats and other canonized writers, he relates this to the cult of the Nietzschean Superman, which found its ultimate exponent in Hitler. Carey's assault on the founders of modern culture caused consternation throughout the artistic and academic establishments when it was first published in 1992.