About this title: Alexei 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 with a love of the ancient world, 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 ...
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Binding: Hardback
Publisher: Taylor & Francis(Routledge)
Date Published: 2003
ISBN-13:9780415284677ISBN:0415284678
Description: BRAND NEW HARDBACK. 9.213 by 6.142 inches. 1. myth is neither invention nor fiction nor fantastic fabrication 2. myth is not ideal being 3. myth is not a scientific nor, more specifically, a primitive scientific construct 4. myth is not a metaphysical construction 5. myth is neither schema nor allegory 6. myth is not a poetic work 7. myth is a personalistic form 8. myth is not an especially religious construction 9. myth is not religious dogma 10. myth is not an historical event as such 11. ... read more
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