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Title |
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From Nineteenth- to Twentieth-Century Theorizing about Myth in Britain and Germany: Tylor versus Blumenberg - Myth Theorized |
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Creator |
Author's name, affiliation, country |
Robert Segal; University of Aberdeen; United Kingdom |
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Discipline(s) |
Religious Studies |
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theory of myth; psychoanalysis; Freud; Otto Rank; Jung; Joseph Campbell; Oedipus; EB Tylor; JG Frazer; hero myths; Lord Raglan; Levi-Strauss; Karl Popper; Bruce Lincoln; Robert Ellwood; Girard; Burkert; Winnicott; James Lovelock; Gaia |
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Subject |
Subject classification |
Myth; Theory of Myth |
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Description |
Abstract |
n chapter one I contrast Tylor’s quintessentially nineteenth-century of myth--that myth serves to explain events in the physical world--to Blumenberg’s equally quintessentially twentieth-century one--that myth serves to do anything but explain events in the physical world. Blumenberg attacks two kinds of theories: the rationalist one, as represented by Tylor, and the romantic one, as represented by Campbell, who himself is unnamed. Blumenberg takes an extreme view: that myth not merely no longer serves to explain the world but never did. Rather, myth has always served to alleviate anxiety about the arbitrariness of the world. Where science is about the world itself, myth, as also for Bultmann and Jonas and Camus, is about the human experience of the world. In this chapter the theories of both Tylor and Blumenberg are strongly criticized. |
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Equinox Publishing Ltd |
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03-Feb-2023 |
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Peer-reviewed Article |
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PDF |
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https://journals.equinoxpub.com/index.php/books/article/view/37555 |
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10.1558/equinox.37555 |
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Journal/conference title; vol., no. (year) |
Equinox eBooks Publishing; Myth Theorized |
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Language |
English=en |
en |
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Copyright 2014 Equinox Publishing Ltd |