Myth and Meaning, Myth and Order
Author | : Stephen C. Ausband |
Publisher | : Mercer University Press |
Total Pages | : 144 |
Release | : 2000-09-05 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 9780865548992 |
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Author | : Stephen C. Ausband |
Publisher | : Mercer University Press |
Total Pages | : 144 |
Release | : 2000-09-05 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 9780865548992 |
Author | : Claude Lévi-Strauss |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 41 |
Release | : 2003-09-02 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 1134522304 |
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.
Author | : Claude Lévi-Strauss |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 73 |
Release | : 2013-12-13 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 1317914422 |
The anthropologist Claude Levi-Strauss was one of the greatest intellectuals of the twentieth century. His work has had a profound impact not only within anthropology but also linguistics, sociology and philosophy. In this short book he examines the nature and role of myth in human history, distilling a lifetime of writing into a few sharp insights. It is a crystalline overview of many of the basic ideas underlying his work, including the theory of structuralism and the difference between 'primitive' and 'scientific' thought and shows why Levi-Strauss remains a hugely important intellectual figure. With a new foreword by Patrick Wilcken.
Author | : Norman Austin |
Publisher | : Penn State Press |
Total Pages | : 280 |
Release | : 2010-11-01 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 9780271039459 |
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.
Author | : Robert Alan Segal |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press, USA |
Total Pages | : 161 |
Release | : 2015 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 0198724705 |
This Very Short Introduction explores different approaches to myth from several disciplines, including science, religion, philosophy, literature, and psychology. In this new edition, Robert Segal considers both the future study of myth as well as the impact of areas such as cognitive science and the latest approaches to narrative theory.
Author | : Claude Lévi-Strauss |
Publisher | : Toronto ; Buffalo : University of Toronto Press |
Total Pages | : 72 |
Release | : 1978 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Claude Levi-Strauss |
Publisher | : National Geographic Books |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 1995-03-14 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 0805210385 |
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.
Author | : Rollo May |
Publisher | : W. W. Norton & Company |
Total Pages | : 323 |
Release | : 1991-05-01 |
Genre | : Psychology |
ISBN | : 0393240770 |
Here are case studies in which myths have helped Dr. May's patients make sense out of an often senseless world. It happens almost daily in a therapist's office. A patient, recalling a person, an event, an emotion, quite unexpectedly supplies a link from a life in the present to one of the durable myths of our culture. In this moment, the myth becomes a mirror, revealing to the patient the source of disturbance and pain in a pattern of behavior that often stretches a year or longer. The healing process begins. The myth, "eternity breaking into time" in Rollo Mays's words, becomes the focal point of recovery. Through tracing myths – whether from classical Greece and Dante's Middle Ages, European legend (Faust and the prototype of Sleeping Beauty), or contemporary American life (Jay Gatsby) -- and relating them to the dreams and associations he encounters in his own practice, Dr. May provides meaning and structure for all who seek direction in a morally confusing world. In this, perhaps the finest achievement of a great therapist, Rollo May writes with "the grace, wit, and style: for which he recently received the Gold Medal of the American Psychological Society.
Author | : J. F. Bierlein |
Publisher | : Wellspring/Ballantine |
Total Pages | : 257 |
Release | : 1999 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 0345422074 |
Reveals how key myths of the world present timeless truths that enrich our understanding of the world and the role humans play today.
Author | : D. Stephenson Bond |
Publisher | : Shambhala Publications |
Total Pages | : 241 |
Release | : 2019-06-25 |
Genre | : Psychology |
ISBN | : 0834842033 |
Living Myth explores the dilemma of how to live life creatively at a time when the dominant myths of our culture are losing their power to give meaning to our lives. Using C. G. Jung's idea of discovering a "personal myth," D. Stephenson Bond reflects on the psychology of mythic imagination, as a force in both culture and individual life. He argues that meaning is experienced subjectively through the stirring of imagination and fantasy in the individual, which touches the larger impersonal, archetypal patterns. The book offers hopeful insights into the possibilities of cultural renewal and individual meaning through the restoration of the imagination.