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The Rise of Modern Mythology, 1680–1860

Autor Burton Feldman, Robert D. Richardson Jr.
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 21 apr 2000
Since 1972, the post-colonial critique has taught students of mythology what Feldman and Richardson already knew: that Europeans had complex investments in the mythologies that they 'discovered' during this period, and that to understand what we now think we know about mythology we have to examine the lenses that those Europeans provided for us to look through when we read Greek or Hindu sources. These lenses were invisible to us until anthropologists like Claude Levi-Strauss and Clifford Geertz, critics like Michel Foucault and Edward Said, and mythologists like Roland Barthes, Jonathan Z. Smith, and Bruce Lincoln made us aware of them. Now that we have them, we can appreciate all the more, and with a newly suspicious hermeneutic, the sources that Feldman and Richardson collected for us.
Mythology has also become a far more important subject than it was 25 years ago, and in a different register still in favour with seekers and Jungians, it is also the object of a sharper interrogation by historians and critics of religion and culture. In this climate, the 'old' texts in this book shed new light on such topical questions as the rise of Fundamentalism and the mass popularity of secular mythologies like Star Trek, Star Wars, and Xena: Warrior Princess. The Rise of Modern Mythology is a voice of reason in the contemporary maelstrom of international religious violence and American pluralism more than any book I know, it exposes the roots of the Western appropriation of non-Western mythologies, from Lawrence of Arabi and Krishna Consciousness in airports.

"This is a book that we need now." --Wendy Doniger, Mircea Eliade Distinguished Service Professor of the History of Religions, The University of Chicago.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780253201881
ISBN-10: 0253201888
Pagini: 592
Ilustrații: 1 b&w photos
Dimensiuni: 157 x 233 x 39 mm
Greutate: 0.87 kg
Editura: MH – Indiana University Press

Cuprins

Abridged Table of Contents
Foreword by Wendy Doniger
1972 Foreword by Mircea Eliade
Acknowledgements :Introduction
Part One : The Earlier Eighteenth Century
Part Two : The Later Eighteenth Century
Part Three : The Nineteenth Century to 1860
Bibliography on Works on Myth, 1680-1860
Index

Recenzii

" . . . peerless . . . " --The Key Reporter

" . . . this book is a first. It will be a standard . . . Comprehensiveness as well as the clarity of the headnotes should make it endure." -Choice

" . . . so good as it stands . . . one should simply be happy to have it." --The Journal of the History of Ideas

" . . . an original, compendious, and highly useful contribution to historical and mythographical scholarship." --The American Scholar

"The Rise of Modern Mythology is a voice of reason in the contemporary maelstrom of international religious violence and American pluralism more than any book I know, it exposes the roots of the Western appropriation of non-Western mythologies, from Lawrence of Arabia and Omar Khayyam to Tibetan Buddhism in Hollywood and Krishna Consciousness in airports. This is a book we need now." --Wendy Doniger

"There will be no book like it in English for some time to come, with the amplitude or conception of the anthology. . . . Without question the book takes its place as a standard work in the field." --Journal of the History of Ideas

". . . a useful contribution to the history of myth scholarship in several scholarly traditions. . . . this collection certainly deserves an audience among folklorists, anthropologists, and others in the humanities and social sciences who enjoy the mythology of myth in Western intellectual history."--American Anthropologist

Textul de pe ultima copertă

In this critical history of the rise and development of interest in myth from 1680 to 1860, sixty selections from authors of the period show how most of the current theories about myth were ""anticipated, indeed proposed, debated, analyzed, and elaborated"" during these years. The authors provide critical introductions with bibliographies for the individual selections and a general bibliography of works on myth published from 1680 to 1860.

Descriere

A reissue of a landmark book on mythology and its uses and misuses in the Western world.