The absence of myth / Sophia Heller.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 243-256) and index.

1 The absence of myth.-- 2 The personalization of myth. -- 3 The lingering of myth. -- 4 The negation of myth.

'...challenges the assumption that we cannot be without myth, that myth is necessary to vital, soulful living. Indeed, Heller argues, we have been living in a world without myth for a long time. The Absence of Myth examines the loss of a religious mode of being-in-the-world and demonstrates how theorists who insist on the presence of myth deny its historical end.'

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