Greek Myths for a Post-Truth World

Yiannis Gabriel (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

312 Seiten

2024
Bloomsbury Academic (Verlag)
978-1-350-37657-1 (ISBN)

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Yiannis Gabriel examines what ancient Greek myths can teach us about the troubles and challenges of our 'post-truth' times: environmental degradation, mass migration, war, inequality, exclusion, authoritarianism and perplexing technological possibilities. It shows how Greek myths continue to stir our emotions and shape our experiences, while also assuming new meanings in contemporary culture that suggest a diversity of possible answers to questions that preoccupy us today. In addition to acting as fountains of meaning when meaning is precarious and fragmented, Greek myths have a therapeutic power connecting us to the predicaments that humans have faced across the ages.

Across centuries and millennia, Cassandra makes her unheeded prophecies and Pandora unleashes fresh troubles from her box. Yet, each age discovers new meaning and value in old stories, and different myths come into prominence as they address the aspirations and anxieties of each. Using ten ancient myths as his points of departure, Yiannis Gabriel invites readers to think and experience the world we inhabit mythologically – to engage with emotions and symbolism that lurk deeply inside old texts and to consider different courses of action, both individual and collective. In addition to providing intellectual stimulation, the book shows that Greek myths can be a source of practical wisdom and re-assurance that we so badly need in our times.

Yiannis Gabriel is Professor Emeritus of Organizational Theory at the University of Bath, UK, and Visiting Professor at Lund University, Sweden. He is author of Music and Story: A Two-Part Invention (2022), Myths, Stories, and Organizations: Premodern Narratives for Our Times (2004) and Storytelling In Organizations: Facts, Fictions, and Fantasies (2000).

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Preface

Introduction

1. The Narrative Veil: Truths and Untruths, Facts and Fantasies
2. Iphigenia: Escaping From the Shadows
3. Phaëthon: Flying High Before Crashing
4. Oedipus and Thebes: Miasma, Contagion and Cleansing
5. Zeus and Frogs: Craving For Strongman in Times of Uncertainty
6. Odysseus and Nausicaa: Encounters With the Uprooted Other
7. Narcissus and Echo: A Culture of Narcissism or a Culture of Echoes?
8. The Trojan War and the Argonautic Expedition: Heroic Missions, Leadership and Hubris
9. Odysseus and the Sirens: Songs, Noise and Silence

Epilogue: Beyond the Strife of Myth and Reason
Appendix: Plato's Myth of Er

Reading On
Bibliography
Notes
Index

Erscheinungsdatum	17.09.2024
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	138 x 216 mm
Themenwelt	Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Altertum / Antike
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft
ISBN-10	1-350-37657-4 / 1350376574
ISBN-13	978-1-350-37657-1 / 9781350376571
Zustand	Neuware