Thinking through myths : philosophical perspectives /
Embracing a radical balance between myths illusory and functional status these eight outstanding essays, from leading academics, deconstruct problems of rationality, imagination and narrative to trace the influence of myth in our own beliefs.
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London ; New York :
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2002.
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction: on the use of philosophy in the study of myths / Kevin Schilbrack
- Myth as primitive philosophy: the case of E.B. Taylor / Robert A. Segal
- Myth and phenomenology / Milton Scarborough
- Myth and pragmatic semiotics / William L. Power
- Myth and metaphysics / Kevin Schilbrack
- Myth and feminist philosophy / Pamela Sue Anderson
- Myth and moral philosophy / James Wetzel
- Myth and postmodernist philosophy / William G. Doty
- Myth and environmental philosophy / J. Baird Callicott
- Myth and ideology / Christopher Flood
- Myth and public science / Mary Gerhart and Allan Melvin Russell.