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 ...
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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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Good in good dust jacket. ***1993 hardcover with jacket/small faint stain at the front top edge of the jacket & of the cover/clean & unmarked text/new clear archival cover. Sewn binding. Cloth over boards. With dust jacket. 408 p. Philosophy and Religion, 3.
Add this copy of Myths and Fictions to cart. $59.95, very good condition, Sold by School Haus Books rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Saginaw, MI, UNITED STATES, published 1993 by Brill Academic Publishers.
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Very good in very good dust jacket. 1993 hardcover with jacket/minor wear on the jacket & minor wear along the page block edges/clean & unmarked/new clear archival cover. Sewn binding. Cloth over boards. With dust jacket. 397 p. Philosophy and Religion, 3.
