The Rise of Modern Mythology, 1680-1860"... peerless... " --The Key Reporter "... this book is a first. It will be a standard... Comprehensiveness as well as the clarity of the headnotes should make it endure." --Choice "... so good as it stands... one should simply be happy to have it." --The Journal of the History of Ideas "... an original, compendious, and highly useful contribution to historical and mythographical scholarship." --The American Scholar "The Rise of Modern Mythology is a voice of reason in the contemporary maelstrom of international religious violence and American pluralism; more than any book I know, it exposes the roots of the Western appropriation of non-Western mythologies, from Lawrence of Arabia and Omar Khayyam to Tibetan Buddhism in Hollywood and Krishna Consciousness in airports. This is a book that we need now." --Wendy Doniger, Mircea Eliade Distinguished Service Professor of the History of Religions, The University of Chicago |
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... means what Homer knew of the true beginnings of the cosmos , which means the theogony taught by the first poet , Orpheus . Homer is a disciple of Orpheus ; and though he wrote later , Homer's allegories preserve an Orphism that is " the ...
... means , a posi- tion somewhere between pure allegorism and pure historicism . He argues that myths represent the confluence of the real and the ideal , the historical and the imagined , the remembered and the in- vented . Myths are ...
... means that myth is reduced to historical events or figures . " Rationalist " means the work stresses a rational skepticism about claims that myth teaches or conveys deep or wise teaching or has divine or transcendent origin ...
Contents
PART ONE The Earlier Eighteenth Century | 3 |
Pierre Bayle 16471706 | 19 |
JOHN TOLAND 16701722 | 25 |
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