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The Myth of Disenchantment
Language: en
Pages: 428
Authors: Jason Ananda Josephson Storm
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2017-05-16 - Publisher: University of Chicago Press

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A great many theorists have argued that the defining feature of modernity is that people no longer believe in spirits, myths, or magic. Jason Ā. Josephson-Stor
Myth and the Human Sciences
Language: en
Pages: 278
Authors: Angus Nicholls
Categories: Religion
Type: BOOK - Published: 2014-12-05 - Publisher: Routledge

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This is the first book-length critical analysis in any language of Hans Blumenberg’s theory of myth. Blumenberg can be regarded as the most important German t
Work on Myth
Language: en
Pages: 727
Authors: Hans Blumenberg
Categories: Philosophy
Type: BOOK - Published: 1988-03-18 - Publisher: MIT Press

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In this rich examination of how we inherit and transform myths, Hans Blumenberg continues his study of the philosophical roots of the modern world. Work on Myth
Science without Myth
Language: en
Pages: 224
Authors: Sergio Sismondo
Categories: Science
Type: BOOK - Published: 1996-01-01 - Publisher: SUNY Press

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This philosophical introduction to and discussion of social and political studies of science argues that scientific knowledge is socially constructed.
Myth of Universal Human Rights
Language: en
Pages: 306
Authors: David N. Stamos
Categories: Social Science
Type: BOOK - Published: 2015-11-17 - Publisher: Routledge

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In this groundbreaking and provocative new book, philosopher of science David N. Stamos challenges the current conceptions of human rights, and argues that the