Myth and the limits of reason / / Phillip Stambovsky.

• Superior document: Value inquiry book series ; Volume 39
• VerfasserIn: Stambovsky, Phillip, 1952-
• Place / Publishing House: Amsterdam ;, Atlanta, Georgia : : Rodopi,, [1996]; ©1996
• Year of Publication: 1996
• Language: English
• Series: Value inquiry book series ; Volume 39.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (146 pages)

Traditionally understood as pre-critical, even pre-rational, mythical thought has in fact played a critical role in post-Enlightenment intellectual history. Modernists in philosophy and literature have used the depictive rationality of myth to disclose, in self-reflective ways, the limits of discurs...

Table of Contents

• ONE Mythopoeia and Rationality
• TWO Mythopoeia and Meaning: Emergence of the Rationalist Standpoint and the Socratic Alternative
• 1 Introduction
• 2 The Mythos/Logos Split
• 3 The Emergence of the Rationalist Tradition: Xenophanes
• 4 Plato's Phaedrus and the Socratic Alternative to Polarizing Mythos and Logos
• THREE The Legacy of Mythos/Logos Polarization in Contemporary Rationalist Myth Theory
• 1 Introduction
• 2 Malinowski: Dissociation of Intellectual and Functional Aspects of Myth
• 3 Lévi-Strauss: Limits of Linguistic Logos as Applied to Myth
• 4 Cassirer: Myth as a Stage on Thought's Way
• 5 Ricoeur: Myth as an Ahistorical Starting Point for Modern Thought
• 6 Blumenberg: Myth as an Accomplishment of Logos
• FOUR Beyond the Mythos/Logos Split: Mythopoeia as Depictive Rationality
• 1 Introduction
• 2 Derivative Mythopoeia in Kierkegaard's Fear and Trembling
• 3 Transformative Mythopoeia in Unamuno's Life of Don Quixote
• 4 Nonce Mythopoeia: An Instance in Henry James's The Golden Bowl
• 5 Critical Mythopoeia in Margaret Atwood's Giving Birth
• 6 Conclusion.