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This revised edition demonstrates how authors as diverse as Kierkegaard, Unamuno, Henry James, and Margaret Atwood employ 'mythemic figurations' in ways that disclose defining limits of discursive analytical reason in the domains, respectively, of religious, national-cultural, psychosocial, and psychobiological experience.

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Chapter 1 Foreword (1996) by Louis Dupré Chapter 2 Preface Chapter 3 Myth and Rationality Chapter 4 Mythic Mindfulness and Meaning: Emergence of the Rationalist Standpoint and the Socratic Alternative Chapter 5 The Legacy of Mythos/Logos Polarization in Contemporary Rationalist Myth Theory Chapter 6 Beyond the Mythos/Logos Split: Mythical Thinking as Depictive Rationality Chapter 7 Conclusion Chapter 8 Appendix Chapter 9 Bibliography Chapter 10 About the Author Chapter 11 Index

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      Publisher: University Press of America
      Publication Date: 12/30/2003 12:00:00 AM
      ISBN13: 9780761827542, 978-0761827542
      ISBN10: 0761827544

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      This revised edition demonstrates how authors as diverse as Kierkegaard, Unamuno, Henry James, and Margaret Atwood employ 'mythemic figurations' in ways that disclose defining limits of discursive analytical reason in the domains, respectively, of religious, national-cultural, psychosocial, and psychobiological experience.

      Table of Contents
      Chapter 1 Foreword (1996) by Louis Dupré Chapter 2 Preface Chapter 3 Myth and Rationality Chapter 4 Mythic Mindfulness and Meaning: Emergence of the Rationalist Standpoint and the Socratic Alternative Chapter 5 The Legacy of Mythos/Logos Polarization in Contemporary Rationalist Myth Theory Chapter 6 Beyond the Mythos/Logos Split: Mythical Thinking as Depictive Rationality Chapter 7 Conclusion Chapter 8 Appendix Chapter 9 Bibliography Chapter 10 About the Author Chapter 11 Index

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