Mythic Imagination Today : The Interpenetration of Mythology and Science (Brill Research Perspectives in Humanities and Social Sciences / Brill Research Perspectives in Popular Culture)

Marks-Tarlow, Terry

Brill（2021/01発売）

• 製本 Paperback:紙装版/ペーパーバック版／ページ数 142 p.
• 言語 ENG
• 商品コード 9789004448421
• DDC分類 398

Full Description

Mythic Imagination Today is an illustrated guide to the interpenetration of mythology and science throughout the ages. This monograph brings alive our collective need for story to guide the rules, roles, and relationships of everyday life. Whereas mythology is born primarily of perception and imagination, science emerges from systematic observation and experimentation. Both disciplines arise from endless curiosity about the workings of the Universe combined with creative urges to transform inner and outer worlds. Both disciplines are located within open neural wiring that gives rise to uniquely human capacities for learning, memory, and metaphor. Terry Marks-Tarlow explores the origins of story within the social brain; mythmakers and myths from multiple cultures; and how contemporary sciences of chaos and complexity theories and fractal geometry dovetail with ancient wisdom. The ancient Greek myth of Psyche and Eros is unpacked in detail—origins of the very concepts of 'psyche' and 'psychology'.

Contents

Mythic Imagination Today

 The Interpenetration of Mythology and Science

 Terry Marks-Tarlow

 Abstract

 Keywords

 Introduction

 1 Myths and Mythmaking

 2 Introducing the New Sciences

 2.13 The Magic of Mythology

 3 Psyche and Eros Today

 4 Foundations: Curiosity, Memory and Metaphor

 Acknowledgments

 References