Myth and ideology / / Lawrence Krader ; edited by Cyril Levitt, Sabine Sander.

• VerfasserIn: Krader, Lawrence,
• TeilnehmendeR: Sander, Sabine, 1976-; Levitt, Cyril,
• Place / Publishing House: New York, New York : : Peter Lang,, [2020]; ©2020
• Year of Publication: 2020
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (416 pages)

Myth and Ideologydevelops a general theory of myth by reviewing esoteric and exoteric myths from many parts of the world from ancient times to the late twentieth century, highlighting the major approaches to the study of myth and ideology.

Table of Contents

• Foreword / by Mayán Cervantes
• Myth in classical antiquity. Plato and Aristotle and the myth of the ancient wisdom
• Myth in the Renaissance and Enlightenment. The deciphering of myth
• Myth in the nineteenth century
• Durkheim and his school. Alcheringa, or Dreamtime
• Myth as the myth of others. Biblical Myth. Myth of Gilgamesh
• The force of myth in our own time. Myth in ideology. Sorel, Pareto, Weber, Mannheim
• Myth of another time and space. Buber, Otto, Cassirer, Langer, Jensen on the psychic unity of the humankind
• Myths of the North Pacific peoples. Boas, Gogoraz, Jochelson. The myth of Asdiwal/Asihwil.
• Winnebago trickster myths. Radin, Malinowski, Kluckhohn
• What is true myth? Pawnee creation and coyote myths. Dorsey and Grinnell
• Structuralists, Lévi-Strauss, Leach
• Myths and universals
• The treatment of myth as a code
• Myth of the law in the Book of Daniel
• Esoteric and exoteric myth. Bella Coola myth. The myth of the drunken goddess
• The state as myth and myths of the state. Hegel and the march of god through the world. Hobbes, Leviathan and Behemoth
• Sacred and secular myth
• Myth in the making. The transition from one myth to another. Benedetto Croce, Barrington Moore, Karl Popper
• Myth, the known and the unknown. The myth of Theseus and Sciron
• Myth and ideology.