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Myth, Society and Profanation - William Pawlett

Myth, Society and Profanation

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Buch | Hardcover
162 Seiten
2024
Routledge (Verlag)
978-0-367-18953-2 (ISBN)
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This work challenges the dominant pejorative view of myth by showing how myth is implicated in the deepest layers of society, politics, individuality and temporality.

This work draws upon European cultural theorists, particularly Schelling, Nietzsche, Freud, Bataille and Baudrillard, to challenge the dominant pejorative view of myth. It argues that myth has been subjected to an intensive process of profanation yet nevertheless is always implicated in society, politics and temporality. The work examines sacred dimensions of myth, the modern myth of desire and some cultural effects of the profanation process.

The intended audience is undergraduate and postgraduate students in the Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences.

William Pawlett is Senior Lecturer in the Faculty of Arts at the University of Wolverhampton, UK. He is author of Georges Bataille: The Sacred and Society, Violence, Society and Radical Theory and Jean Baudrillard: Against Banality.

Introduction

Chapter One: Myth, Society, (A)theogony

Chapter Two: Left Pole of the Sacred

Chapter Three: Society, Heterology and Transparency

Chapter Four: Profanations of Sex and Death

Chapter Five: After Profanation: myth and disappearance

Concluding remarks

Bibliography

Index

Erscheinungsdatum
Reihe/Serie Routledge Studies in Social and Political Thought
Verlagsort London
Sprache englisch
Maße 156 x 234 mm
Gewicht 471 g
Themenwelt Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie
Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie Allgemeines / Lexika
ISBN-10 0-367-18953-4 / 0367189534
ISBN-13 978-0-367-18953-2 / 9780367189532
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