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Aleksei Fedorovich Losev (1893-1988) was among the greatest Russian
philosophers, thinkers, and classicists of the twentieth century. A
contemporary of Mikhail Bakhtin, and a scholar of astonishing
erudition, his work remained almost unknown to the public until the
fall of communism in 1990. The Dialectics of Myth, published here
for the first time in English, remains his foremost achievement.
Setting out a provocative and spiritually informed account of the
way that myth informs secular and religious ideologies, it
challenges limited interpretations of myths as mere poetic
allegories, primitive scientific constructs, or channels for
religious dogma and political fabrication. Insisting upon the
miraculous elements of myth, the book creates a powerful and
readable defence for mythic experience as a genuine part of
consciousness, reality, and being.
Aleksei Fedorovich Losev (1893-1988) was among the greatest Russian philosophers, thinkers and classicists of the twentieth century. A contemporary of Mikhail Bakhtin, and a scholar of astonishing erudition, his work remained almost unknown to the public until the fall of communism in 1990. The Dialectics of Myth, published here for the first time in the English language, remains his foremost achievement. Setting out a provocative and spiritually informed account of the way that myth informs secular and religious ideologies, it challenges limited interpretations of myths as mere poetic allegories, primitive scientific constructs, or channels for religious dogma and political fabrication. Insisting upon the miraculous elements of myth, the book creates a powerful and readable defence for mythic experience as a genuine part of consciousness, reality and being.
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