Myth, Symbol, and Reality - Couverture souple

Olson, Alan

 
9780268013493: Myth, Symbol, and Reality

Synopsis

Do myths and symbols have anything at all to tell us about reality? Or do they simply deserve to be relegated to the realm of fantastic unreality? The essayists in this volume deploy all the critical tools available in the task of taking myth and symbol seriously. They are not willing to consign the use of the symbolic to the logician or to relinquish the mythical to the comparative anthropologist as something of historical interest only. Instead, they strive for that difficult position that is guided by criticism but is still open to wonder in the face of what myth and symbol offer in terms of enrichment, meaning, and self-transcendence.

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À propos de l?auteur

Alan M. Olson is a Professor of the Philosophy of Religion at Boston University.

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9780268013462: Myth, Symbol, and Reality

Edition présentée

ISBN 10 :  0268013462 ISBN 13 :  9780268013462
Editeur : University of Notre Dame Press, 1980
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