Myth and Modern Man
Author : Raphael Patai
Publisher :
Page : 380 pages
File Size : 50,86 MB
Release : 1972
Category : Social Science
ISBN :
Author : Raphael Patai
Publisher :
Page : 380 pages
File Size : 50,86 MB
Release : 1972
Category : Social Science
ISBN :
Author : Gerald A. Larue
Publisher : Prentice Hall
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 13,26 MB
Release : 1975
Category : Social Science
ISBN :
"The themes in this book relate to the background of many present day moral concerns including abortion, women's liberation and war. It reveals the flow of ideas from ancient Egypt and Mesopotamia and discusses the alternative approaches to life found in societies from the Nile to the Euphrates. Biblical myths and modern myths are examined with a final section devoted to future myths. Problems of change and human identity are considered. The myths are organized according to type and grouped under country of origin. This book raises questions and helps to evaluate the way in which the ancient past affects present life styles."-Publisher.
Author : Edward F. Edinger
Publisher :
Page : 136 pages
File Size : 13,21 MB
Release : 1984
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN :
Seminal work by the author of Ego and Archetype, proposing a new world-view based on the creative collaboration between the scientific pursuit of knowledge and the religious search for meaning.
Author : Warren Farrell
Publisher :
Page : 408 pages
File Size : 35,44 MB
Release : 2001
Category : Men
ISBN : 9781876451301
...lies understanding. This is what bestselling author Warren Farrell discovered when he took a stand against established views of the male role in society, and pursued o course of study to find out who men really are. Here are the eye-opening, heart-rending, and undeniably enlightening results...
Author : Gerald A. Larue
Publisher : Prentice Hall
Page : 254 pages
File Size : 40,61 MB
Release : 1975
Category : Social Science
ISBN :
"The themes in this book relate to the background of many present day moral concerns including abortion, women's liberation and war. It reveals the flow of ideas from ancient Egypt and Mesopotamia and discusses the alternative approaches to life found in societies from the Nile to the Euphrates. Biblical myths and modern myths are examined with a final section devoted to future myths. Problems of change and human identity are considered. The myths are organized according to type and grouped under country of origin. This book raises questions and helps to evaluate the way in which the ancient past affects present life styles."-Publisher.
Author :
Publisher : Cambria Press
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 46,85 MB
Release :
Category :
ISBN : 1621968073
Author : Wilfred Thomas Jewkes
Publisher :
Page : pages
File Size : 40,49 MB
Release : 2011
Category : Electronic books
ISBN :
Author : Victor C. Ferkiss
Publisher :
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 36,50 MB
Release : 1969
Category : Mass society
ISBN :
Author : Philip Ball
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 437 pages
File Size : 29,73 MB
Release : 2022-10-17
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0226823849
With The Modern Myths, brilliant science communicator Philip Ball spins a new yarn. From novels and comic books to B-movies, it is an epic exploration of literature, new media and technology, the nature of storytelling, and the making and meaning of our most important tales. Myths are usually seen as stories from the depths of time—fun and fantastical, but no longer believed by anyone. Yet, as Philip Ball shows, we are still writing them—and still living them—today. From Robinson Crusoe and Frankenstein to Batman, many stories written in the past few centuries are commonly, perhaps glibly, called “modern myths.” But Ball argues that we should take that idea seriously. Our stories of Dracula, Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, and Sherlock Holmes are doing the kind of cultural work that the ancient myths once did. Through the medium of narratives that all of us know in their basic outline and which have no clear moral or resolution, these modern myths explore some of our deepest fears, dreams, and anxieties. We keep returning to these tales, reinventing them endlessly for new uses. But what are they really about, and why do we need them? What myths are still taking shape today? And what makes a story become a modern myth? In The Modern Myths, Ball takes us on a wide-ranging tour of our collective imagination, asking what some of its most popular stories reveal about the nature of being human in the modern age.
Author : Roland Barthes
Publisher : Macmillan
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 44,55 MB
Release : 2013-03-12
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 0809071940
"This new edition of MYTHOLOGIES is the first complete, authoritative English version of the French classic, Roland Barthes's most emblematic work"--