William Pawlett

Myth, Society and Profanation

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Produktbeschreibung

This work challenges the dominant pejorative view of myth by showing how myth is implicated in the deepest layers of society, politics, individuality and temporality.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 162
• Erscheinungstermin: 31. Oktober 2024
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 11mm
• Gewicht: 413g
• ISBN-13: 9780367189532
• ISBN-10: 0367189534
• Artikelnr.: 70942673

Autorenporträt

William Pawlett is Senior Lecturer in the Faculty of Arts at the University of Wolverhampton, UK. He is author of Georges Bataille: The Sacred and Society, Violence, Society and Radical Theory and Jean Baudrillard: Against Banality.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
Chapter One: Myth, Society, (A)theogony
Chapter Two: Left Pole of the Sacred
Chapter Three: Society, Heterology and Transparency
Chapter Four: Profanations of Sex and Death
Chapter Five: After Profanation: myth and disappearance
Concluding remarks
Bibliography
Index