The Changing Guise of Myths: Philosophical Essays
Each of us, waking in the morning, has to open the world we have woken into. We have to endow meaning to people, objects and tasks, have to secure a place in the chaos of time passing. When opening their eyes during the palpable reality of a dream, a person will dream beyond the dream, will carry ov...
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| Format: | Electronic Book |
| Language: | English |
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Frankfurt a.M
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag d. Wissenschaften
2013
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| In: | Year: 2013 |
| Edition: | 1st, New ed |
| Series/Journal: | Modernity in Question
1 |
| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
The Modern
/ Manner of living
/ Philosophy
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| Further subjects: | B
Collection of essays
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Presumably Free Access Volltext (Resolving-System) Volltext (lizenzpflichtig) |
| Parallel Edition: | Non-electronic
Available in another form: 9783631632253 |
| Summary: | Each of us, waking in the morning, has to open the world we have woken into. We have to endow meaning to people, objects and tasks, have to secure a place in the chaos of time passing. When opening their eyes during the palpable reality of a dream, a person will dream beyond the dream, will carry over meanings and experiences from one sphere to another. The author of these collected essays puts various strategies under the microscope which we deploy to make the world material, analyzing the mythical structures we use for this purpose – interpreting anew their changing guise in the contemporary. Being witness to the changing material desert of post-Soviet Eastern Europe transforming into the over-saturated jungle of modern capitalism, he offers a unique window into the seemingly obvious – only to unveil its manifold human aspects of the hidden Contents: The Changing Guise of Myths – Women, Men and Plato – The Question of Longevity – Melancholies and Rituals – The War of Icons – Let us Love Pop Culture – The Question of Chaos – The Cat and the Spider, or where the Power is – Living in the Time of Decline |
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| ISBN: | 3653035961 |
| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.3726/978-3-653-03596-4 |