'...makes a serious attempt to get beyond the confines of any single culture and enter into the mythical imagination of the ancient Hindus, Chinese, Hebrews, and Christian.' Shofar, 1993. '...useful and thoughtful...' Ninian Smart, Numen, 1995. 'Will be most useful to graduate students and faculty.' Choice, 1994.
Myths and Fictions - the third in a series of books on comparative philosophy and religion - is a collection of original essays, none previously published, on the theory and the actuality of myths and fictions in the different cultures of the world. Through all the essays there runs the question of the relation of literal truth to truth conceived in other ways or dimensions. Taken as a whole, the book makes a serious attempt to get beyond the confines of any single culture and enter into the mythical imagination of the ancient Hindus, Chinese, Hebrews and Christians, and by this act of imagination to escape (in Italo Calvino's words) "the limited perspective of the individual ego, not only to enter into selves like our own but to give speech to that which has no language..."
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Hardcover. Zustand: vg to near fine. First edition. Quarto. (vii) 397pp. [1]. Illustrated orange dust jacket with white lettering on the front cover and spine. Orange-brown cloth boards gilt-stamped lettering and publisher's device on the front cover and spine. The third volume in the series on comparative philosophy and religion, this is a collection of 13 original essays "on the theory and the actuality of myths and fictions in the different cultures of the world." Dust jacket with some light sunning to the back cover and minor rubbing to extremities. Dj in very good, binding and interior in near fine condition overall. Artikel-Nr. 47269
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