Myths and Fictions

Myths and Fictions
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Publisher : BRILL
Total Pages : 407
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ISBN-10 : 9789004451940
ISBN-13 : 9004451943
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Download or read book Myths and Fictions written by Biderman and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2021-11-22 with total page 407 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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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