Myth and Meaning, Myth and Order (P265/Mrc)Mercer University Press, 5 de set. de 2000 - 124 páginas |
Conteúdo
| 1 | |
THE BREAKUP OF SYSTEMS | 23 |
REACHING FOR MYTHS | 43 |
BEGINNING AND RETURNING | 59 |
LOOKING OUTWARD THE MYTH OF THE STATE | 77 |
LOOKING INWARD THE MYTH OF THE SELF | 91 |
MYTH AND ORDER | 107 |
INDEX | 121 |
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Termos e frases comuns
Aeschylus American Beginning belief Beowulf Blougram called Carl Jung chaos Christianity church civilization coherent mythic Copernicus course deal death deities Dionysus Enlil erinyes Euhemerus European evil existence fact faith fear feel Frontier Thesis Galileo Gigadibs gods Greek Hemingway Herman Melville hero Hesiod Huck human idea idealism important individual intellectuals Joseph Campbell Judeo-Christian Jung kind least literature lives look loss lost man's Marx Marxism meaning mind modern moral mythic structure mythic system mythic traditions mythological tradition mythology myths nation nature nineteenth century observable phenomena pagan pattern perhaps philosophers picture poem poet popular possible problems question R. W. B. Lewis reason rebels religion religious renewal ritual Roman says seemed sense simply social society spirit story Sun Also Rises T. S. ELIOT tendency theme things tribe truth twentieth century universe Utnapishtim vision Well-Lighted Place Western wonderful worship writers Zeus
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