Myth and ideology / Lawrence Krader ; edited by Cyril Levitt and Sabine Sander.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Krader, Lawrence, author.

Contributor:

Levitt, Cyril, editor.

Sander, Sabine, 1976- editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Myth.

Ideology.

Physical Description:

lxix, 344 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

New York : Peter Lang, [2021]

Summary:

"This posthumously published work by Lawrence Krader surveys the study of myths from ancient times (classical Greece and Rome, Egypt, Babylonian, Akkadian, Sumerian, Chinese) from the Biblican traditions, from the indigenous peoples of the Americas and Australia, and from Northeastern and Central Asia.The book covers the various approaches to the study of myth from ancient times through Europe in the Middle Ages, in the Renaissance and Enlightenment, in the Romantic movement in the late eighteenth and early to mid-nineteenth century, among the evolutionists of the mid-nineteenth to the early twentieth century, and the structuralists, and hermeneutic approaches as well as linguistics. The book covers the treatment of myth from the inside that is from the experience of those committed to the myth and from the outside or those ethnologists, philosophers, and other students of myth who are outsiders. This treatment takes up the theme of esoteric and exoteric myths as it rejects some of the assumptions and approaches to the study of myth in the past while singling out others for approval and inclusion in the general theory of myth. Interestingly, it includes a discussion of myth in science and in infinitesimal mathematics. And, it considers the relationship between myth and ideology in the twentieth century in relation to politics and power. It both incorporates and broadens Krader's theory of nature as a manifold consisting of different orders which he developed in his magnum opus Noetics: The Science of Thinking and Knowing"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Machine generated contents note: On Terminology

Myth and States of Mind

Myth and the Science of Myth

Part I

1. Myth in Classical Antiquity. Plato and Aristotle and The Myth of The Ancient Wisdom. Cicero, Sallustius, The World As A Myth

2. Myth in The Renaissance and Enlightenment. The Deciphering of Myth

3. Myth in The Nineteenth Century

Hegel and the Hegelians; Schelling

Myth and Voices of Doubt. Schopenhauer, Nietzsche, Scheler

Part II

Introduction to Part II Modern Studies of Myth. Bachofen, Tylor, Muller, Frazer

1. Durkheim and His School. Alcheringa, Or Dreamtime

2. Myth As The Myth of Others. Biblical Myth. Myth of Gilgamesh

3. The Force of Myth in Our Own Time. Myth in Ideology. Sorel, Pareto, Weber, Mannheim

4. Myth of Another Time and Space. Buber, Otto, Cassirer, Langer, Jensen

On the Psychic Unity of the Humankind

5. Myths of The North Pacific Peoples. Boas, Bogoraz, Jochelson. The Myth of Asdiwal/Asihwil. A Creation Myth of The Chukchis

Two Versions of a Tsimshian Myth

The Myth of Asdiwal

The Myth of Asihwil

A Chukchi Myth of Creation, tot-tomwa-pynyl

On Lies and Trickery

A Genuine Myth (lye lumnyt) of the Chukchis. This is a Healing Myth

Myth in the Foreign and Domestic Relations of the Chukchis

On Myth, Time, and Mythic Time

6. Winnebago Trickster Myths. Radin, Malinowski, Kluckhohn

7. What is True Myth? Pawnee Creation and Coyote Myths. Dorsey and Grinnell

A Pawnee Creation Myth

Coyote and Scalped Woman

On the Relativity of Standards of Social Life and Myth

8. Structuralists, Levi-Strauss, Leach

Myth and the Realm of the Possible

9. Myths and Universals

Part III

Introduction to Part III Theory of Myth

A Note on Allegory, Symbol and Metaphor

1. The Treatment of Myth As A Code

The Code of Justinian

The Code of Napoleon

Codes, Cryptanalysis and Ciphers

2. Myth of The Law in The Book of Daniel

Redundancy in Myth

On Form and Substance in Myth. Myths and Ghost Stories

3. Esoteric and Exoteric Myth. Bella Coola Myth. The Myth of The Drunken Goddess

4. The State As Myth and Myths of The State. Hegel and The March of God Through The World. Hobbes, Leviathan and Behemoth

The Descent of the Emperor Chingis Khan

The Myth of Alan the Fair

5. Sacred and Secular Myth

Sin and Crime

The Absurd and the Irrational. Tertullian, Unamuno, H. A. Murray

Myths of Utopia, Technics and the Machine. Myths of the Angst of Our Time. Frankenstein, Juggernaut

Myths of Science. Archimedes, Galileo, Laplace. Kapitza's Crocodile

Friedrich Engels and the Myth of the Dialectic of Nature. Hertz and Nagel on the Myths of Science

Myths of Infinitesimals in Mathematics

Further Discussion on Infinitesimals

6. Myth in The Making. The Transition From One Myth to Another. Benedetto Croce, Barrington Moore, Karl Popper

Myth as Pastime Activity

Myth as Oecumenic Expression

7. Myth, The Known and The Unknown. The Myth of Theseus and Sciron

8. Myth and Ideology

Ideology and the Development of Marxist and Anti-Marxist Thought

Ideology as the Activation of the Myth.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

Online version: Krader, Lawrence. Myth and ideology

ISBN:

9781433172069

1433172062

OCLC:

1202757919

Publisher Number:

99988356184