Myth and mind / Harvey Birenbaum.
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TextPublisher: Lanham, MD : University Press of America, [1988]Description: xviii, 271 pages : illustrations ; 24 cmContent type: - text
- unmediated
- volume
- 0819167568 (alk. paper) :
- 0819167576 (pbk. : alk. paper) :
- 291.1/3 19
- BL304 .B58 1988
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 261-267) and index.
Part 1 - Seeing. 1 The image-ing mind. 2 Felt logic. 3 The meaning of wonder. 4 The qualitative world: its form. 5 The qualitative world: its operation. Part 2 - Meeting. 6 The view from the psyche. 7 The definition of mortality. Part 3 - Being. 8 The mythic truth. 9 Myth in nature. 10 The psycho-mythology of everyday life. 11 Symbolic consciousness. Appendix 1 - About consciousness. Appendix 2 - Myths, fictions, metaphors
'...the most comprehensive introduction to the study of myth, combining philosophic, psychological, and anthropological approaches. It integrates basic concept of Carl Jung, Mircea Eliade, Ernst Cassirer, Martin Buber, Claude Levi-Strauss, and many other authorities, to develop a method of interpretation that captures the more elusive features of the mythic imagination....Its sutdy of myth leads to a general theory of culture and a way of viewing the human condition that is at the same time traditional and modern, emotional and thoughtful, personal and timeless. Lively and eloquent in style....'
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