Meaning And Being In Myth
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Meaning And Being In Myth
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Author : Norman Austin
language : en
Publisher: Penn State Press
Release Date : 2010-11-01
Meaning And Being In Myth written by Norman Austin and has been published by Penn State Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-11-01 with Social Science categories.
Norman Austin has organized his analysis of classical Greek myths around Lacan's dichotomy between (ineffable) Being and the meanings imposed upon Being by culturally determined signifiers. The primary signifiers in myth (the gods), as projections of contradictory meanings, impel human consciousness in contradictory directions: toward heroic self-realization, on the one hand, and into the fear, guilt, and despair resulting from failure, on the other. The gods both reveal and occlude that which they signify--the signified; ultimately, Being itself. Austin includes one chapter on the father's ghost in Shakespeare's Hamlet, and another on Albert Camus's The Stranger, as examples of the power of mythical archetypes to reveal and occlude Being, even when the apparatus of gods has been excluded. Despite their pessimism, ancient myths also affirm that the paradoxes are not insoluble. Austin concludes by outlining the profile of the Universal Self intimated in myth, religion, and philosophy as the joint venture of the world realized in consciousness, consciousness realized in consciousness, and consciousness realized in the world.
Myth And Meaning
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Author : Claude Lévi-Strauss
language : en
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
Release Date : 1978-01-01
Myth And Meaning written by Claude Lévi-Strauss and has been published by University of Toronto Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1978-01-01 with History categories.
In these five lectures originally prepared for the CBC, Claude Lévi-Strauss, one of the world's greatest living thinkers, offers the insights of a lifetime spent interpreting myths and trying to discover their significance for human understanding.
Myth And Meaning
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Author : Claude Lévi-Strauss
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2003-09-02
Myth And Meaning written by Claude Lévi-Strauss and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2003-09-02 with Social Science categories.
In addresses written for a wide general audience, one of the twentieth century's most prominent thinkers, Claude Lévi-Strauss, here offers the insights of a lifetime on the crucial questions of human existence. Responding to questions as varied as 'Can there be meaning in chaos?', 'What can science learn from myth?' and 'What is structuralism?', Lévi-Strauss presents, in clear, precise language, essential guidance for those who want to learn more about the potential of the human mind.
Myth And Meaning Myth And Order
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Author : Stephen C. Ausband
language : en
Publisher: Mercer University Press
Release Date : 2000-09-05
Myth And Meaning Myth And Order written by Stephen C. Ausband and has been published by Mercer University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2000-09-05 with Social Science categories.
Myth
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Author : G. S. Kirk
language : en
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Release Date : 1973-06-08
Myth written by G. S. Kirk and has been published by Univ of California Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1973-06-08 with History categories.
This book, developed out of the 1969 Sather lectures at Berkeley, California, confronts a wide range of problems concerning the nature, meaning and functions of myths. Professor Kirk's aim is to introduce a degree of coherence and of critical awareness into a subject that arouses profound interest today, but which for too long has been the target of excessive theorizing and interdisciplinary confusion between anthropologists, sociologists, classicists, philosophers and psychologists. Professor Kirk begins by discussing the relation of myths to rituals and folktales, and the weakness of universalist theories of function. He then subjects Lévi-Strauss's structuralist theory to an extended exposition and criticism; he considers the character and meaning of ancient Near Eastern myths, their influence on Greece, and the special forms with rational modes of thought, and finally, he assesses the status of myths as expressions of the unconscious, as elements of dreams, universal symbols, as accidents along the way to some narrative objective. The result is a significant critical venture into the history and philosophy of thought, imagination, symbol and society.--From publisher description.
Myth And Meaning In Early Taoism
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Author : N. J. Girardot
language : en
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Release Date : 1988
Myth And Meaning In Early Taoism written by N. J. Girardot and has been published by Univ of California Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1988 with Religion categories.
Myth and Meaning in Early Daoism examines some of the earliest texts associated with the Daoist tradition (primarily the Daode jing, Zhuangzi, and Huainanzi) from the outlook of the comparative history of religions and finds a kind of thematic and soteriological unity rooted in the mythological symbolism of hundun, the primal chaos being and principle that is foundational for the philosophy and practice of the Dao as creatio continua in cosmic, social, and individual life. Dedicated to the proposition that ancient Chinese texts and traditions are often best understood from a broad interdisciplinary and interpretive perspective, this work when it was written challenged many prevailing conceptions of the Daode jing and Zhuangzi as primarily philosophical texts without any religious significance or affinity with the later sectarian traditions. While controversial and at times playfully provocative, the methodology and findings of this book are still important for the ongoing scholarship about Daoism in China and the world.
Myths And Their Meaning
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Author : Max John Herzberg
language : en
Publisher: Allyn & Bacon
Release Date : 1984
Myths And Their Meaning written by Max John Herzberg and has been published by Allyn & Bacon this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1984 with Social Science categories.
Myth
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Author : Geoffrey Stephen Kirk
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1983
Myth written by Geoffrey Stephen Kirk and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1983 with Mythology categories.
Myth And Meaning
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Author : Claude Levi-Strauss
language : en
Publisher: CreateSpace
Release Date : 2015-07-11
Myth And Meaning written by Claude Levi-Strauss and has been published by CreateSpace this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-07-11 with categories.
Ever since the rise of science and the scientific method in the seventeenth century, we have rejected mythology as the product of superstitious and primitive minds. Only now are we coming to a fuller appreciation of the nature and role of myth in human history. In these five lectures originally prepared for Canadian radio, Claude Lévi-Strauss offers, in brief summations, the insights of a lifetime spent interpreting myths and trying to discover their significance for human understanding. The lectures begin with a discussion of the historical split between mythology and science and the evidence that mythic levels of understanding are being reintegrated in our approach to knowledge. In an extension of this theme, Professor Lévi-Strauss analyzes what we have called "primitive thinking" and discusses some universal features of human mythology. The final two lectures outline the functional relationship between mythology and history and the structural relationship between mythology and music.
Myth Its Meaning And Functions In Ancient And Other Cultures
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language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1973
Myth Its Meaning And Functions In Ancient And Other Cultures written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1973 with categories.