This book greatly enhances our knowledge of the interrelationship of Greek religion & culture and the Ancient Near East by offering important analyses of Greek myths, divinities and terms like ...'magic' and 'paradise', but also of the Greek contribution to the Christian notion of atonement.
"The Philosophy of Symbolic Forms is one of the landmarks of twentieth century philosophy. Drawing from the influential work of Wilhelm Dilthey, it transformed neo-Kantianism into a new robust ...philosophy of culture. The second volume, on Mythical Thinking, analyzes the fundamental layers of perception and expression as well as the articulations with religion and the dialectic with other forms, essentially language and art.
The intellectual breadth of the volume is remarkable. It initiated the debate with Martin Heidegger and prompted a long-lasting meditation by Hans Blumenberg. We are only beginning to recognize its importance for our understanding of the power of images in the construction of aesthetics, the self, and the socio-political world. It initiated a discussion within French sociology (Émile Durkheim, Marcel Mauss) that ultimately resurfaced in Pierre Bourdieu, while today it is considered as a resourceful path for cultural and critical theory (Drucilla Cornell and Kenneth M. Panfilio). Finally, this volume also offers solid grounds for a political critique of Nazism - specifically: Alfred Rosenberg's Myth of the 20th Century and Adolf Hitler's Mein Kampf - as well as the new emerging totalitarian ideologies."Fabien Capeilleres, Professor of Philosophy, editor of the French edition of Cassirer's Works.
This new translation makes Cassirer's seminal work available to a new generation of scholars. Each volume includes a translator's introduction by Steve G. Lofts, a foreword by Peter E. Gordon, a glossary of key terms, and an index.
The Odyssey's larger plot is composed of a number of distinct genres of myth, all of which are extant in various Near Eastern cultures (Mesopotamian, West Semitic, Egyptian). Unexpectedly, the Near ...Eastern culture with which the Odyssey has the most parallels is the Old Testament. Consideration of how much of the Odyssey focuses on non-heroic episodes - hosts receiving guests, a king disguised as a beggar, recognition scenes between long-separated family members - reaffirms the Odyssey's parallels with the Bible. In particular the book argues that the Odyssey is in a dialogic relationship with Genesis, which features the same three types of myth that comprise the majority of the Odyssey: theoxeny, romance (Joseph in Egypt), and Argonautic myth (Jacob winning Rachel from Laban). The Odyssey also offers intriguing parallels to the Book of Jonah, and Odysseus' treatment by the suitors offers close parallels to the Gospels' depiction of Christ in Jerusalem.
The concept of a New Mythology is a central topic of Early Romantic philosophy. Whereas its most influential delineations in the Älteste Systemprogramm and by Friedrich Schlegel believe a New ...Mythology to be impossible, Schelling takes a more optimistic view. In his Philosophie der Kunst Schelling formulates a theory of mythology which also accomodates a modern mythology. His most important examples of such a New Mythology are Dante’s Commedia and Goethe’s Faust.
En la regió d’Amèrica Central, els fenòmens de la transculturació han estat històricament molt freqüents. En aquest treball ens proposem, en un primer moment, traçar algunes línies d’un panorama ...general dels encreuaments mitològics a Amèrica Central i, en un segon moment, aturar-nos en alguns casos singulars i representatius a partir d’un corpus de textos que pertanyen a Luz Méndez de la Vega (Guatemala, 1919-2012), «Penélope», Tríptico (1980); Roberto Obregón (Guatemala, 1940-1970), «Gucumatz encadenado» (1961), Recuento de poesía (1995); i Amanda Castro (Honduras, 1962-2010), «La Creación», Onironautas (2001).
La mitologia del pipils, una de les civilitzacions precolombines mesoamericanes, no és gaire coneguda. No hi ha còdexs prehispànics ni cròniques de l'època colonial que recopilin els seus mites. El ...1930 Schultze-Jena va recopilar els mites en llengua pipil i en els anys recents Rafael Lara Martínez no tan sols els va traduir al castellà, sinó que va investigar la cosmovisió pipil. D'aquesta manera, hi ha un corpus de mites que, a través d'aquest estudi, jo voldria contribuir a que es conegui. Després d'una breu introducció, orientada a ubicar geogràfica i històricament els pipils, s'analitza la relació entre el dispositiu cultural hegemònic i la cultura indígena. A continuació s'ofereix una lectura del mite “la mujer en fragmentos”, subratllant la seva especificitat en l'àmbit de les cultures mesoamericanes i mostrant, concisament, la seva continuïtat, més que la seva reescriptura, en una novel·la contemporània de l'escriptora salvadorenca Claudia Hernández.
Beyond its housing estates and identikit high streets there is another Britain. This is the Britain of mist-drenched forests and unpredictable sea-frets: of wraith-like fog banks, druidic mistletoe ...and peculiar creatures that lurk, half-unseen, in the undergrowth, tantalising and teasing just at the periphery of human vision. How have the remarkably persistent folkloric traditions of the British Isles formed and been formed by the identities and psyches of those who inhabit them? In her sparkling new history, Carolyne Larrington explores the diverse ways in which a myriad of imaginary and fantastical beings has moulded the cultural history of the nation. Fairies, elves and goblins here tread purposefully, sometimes malignly, over an eerie, preternatural landscape that also conceals brownies, selkies, trows, knockers, boggarts, land-wights, Jack o'Lanterns, Bargests, the sinister Nuckelavee, or water-horse, and even Black Shuck: terrifying hell-hound of the Norfolk coast with eyes of burning coal.Focusing on liminal points where the boundaries between this world and that of the supernatural grow thin - those marginal tide-banks, saltmarshes, floodplains, moors and rock-pools wherein mystery lies - the author shows how mythologies of mermen, Green Men and Wild Men have helped and continue to help human beings deal with such ubiquitous concerns as love and lust, loss and death and continuity and change. Evoking the Wild Hunt, the ghostly bells of Lyonesse and the dread fenlands haunted by Grendel, and ranging the while from Shetland to Jersey and from Ireland to East Anglia, this is a book that will captivate all those who long for the wild places: the mountains and chasms where Gog, Magog and their fellow giants lie in wait.
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