The politics of myth: a study of C.G. Jung, Mircea Eliade, and Joseph Campbell
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TextSeries: (SUNY Series: Issues in the study of religion)Albany, NY State University of New York Press c1999Description: viii. 207p.; bibliog. notes; indexContent type: - text
- unmediated
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- 079144306X
- Politics and Culture
- Eliade, Mircea, 1907-1986
- Campbell, Joseph, 1904-1987
- Jung, C. G. (Carl Gustav) 1875-1961--Biography
- Jung, C. G. (Carl Gustav) 1875-1961--Influences
- Jung, C. G. (Carl Gustav), 1875-1961--Antisemitism
- Mythologists--History--20th century
- Mythology--Psychological Aspects
- Romanticism
- Gnosticism
- Fascism
- National Socialism
- Antisemitism
- Individual and the collective
- Marxism
- BL 303.5 .E44 1999
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1 Myth, Gnosis and modernity. 2 Carl Gustav Jung and Wotan's return. 3 Mircea Eliade and nostalgia for the sacred. 4 Joseph Campbell and the new quest for the Holy Grail. 5. Conclusion: the myth of myth
'Professor of Religion and one-time student of Mircea Eliade, Ellwood examines the lives of and works on mythology by Jung, Eliade and Campbell, and their attempts to connect modern man with ancient roots in order to balance out the loss of spirituality in a Late Modern Age society. He concludes that their approaches to myth are all inherently politically conservative because of their emphasis on the individual, and that much of the personal and political criticism levelled at them must be viewed in this context.'
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