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Myth and Ideology (Hardcover, New edition)
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Myth and Ideology (Hardcover, New edition)
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This posthumously published work by Lawrence Krader surveys the
study of myths from ancient times (in classical Greece and Rome,
Egypt, Babylon, Akkad, Sumer, China), in the Biblical traditions,
of the indigenous peoples of the Americas and Australia, and from
Northeastern and Central Asia. It also covers the various
approaches to the study of myth in Europe in the Middle Ages, the
Renaissance and Enlightenment, and the Romantic movement in the
late eighteenth and early to mid-nineteenth century; it discusses
evolutionist, structuralist, hermeneutic, and linguistic
approaches. The book covers on the one hand the treatment of myth
from the inside, that is from the experience of those committed to
the myth, and on the other the perspective of those ethnologists,
philosophers and other students of myth who are outsiders. Krader
takes up the theme of esoteric and exoteric myths as he rejects
some of the assumptions and approaches to the study of myth from
the past while singling out others for approval and inclusion in
his general theory of myth. The book includes a discussion of myth
in science and in infinitesimal mathematics. It also considers the
relationship between myth and ideology in the twentieth century in
relation to politics and power. It both incorporates and broadens
Krader's theory of nature as a manifold consisting of different
orders of space-time which he developed in his magnum opus Noetics:
The Science of Thinking and Knowing.
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