Carl Kerényi

Prometheus (eBook, ePUB)

Archetypal Image of Human Existence
Übersetzer: Manheim, Ralph

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Prometheus the god stole fire from heaven and bestowed it on humans. In punishment, Zeus chained him to a rock, where an eagle clawed unceasingly at his liver, until Herakles freed him. For the Greeks, the myth of Prometheus's release reflected a primordial law of existence and the fate of humankind. Carl Kerényi examines the story of Prometheus and the very process of mythmaking as a reflection of the archetypal function and seeks to discover how this primitive tale was invested with a universal fatality, first in the Greek imagination, and then in the Western tradition of Romantic poetry. Kerényi traces the evolving myth from Hesiod and Aeschylus, and in its epic treatment by Goethe and Shelley; he moves on to consider the myth from the perspective of Jungian psychology, as the archetype of human daring signifying the transformation of suffering into the mystery of the sacrifice.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Penguin Random House South Africa
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. Juni 2020
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780691214580
• Artikelnr.: 59587110

Autorenporträt

Carl Kerényi was a professor of classics and the history of religion in his native Hungary. His works include Eleusis: Archetypal Image of Mother and Daughter and Dionysos: Archetypal Image of Indestructible Life, and he collaborated with C. G. Jung to write Essays on a Science of Mythology; all three books are available in Mythos paperback editions.

Inhaltsangabe

List of Plates
Introduction
I
Who Is Goethe's Prometheus?
3
II
The Titanic, and the Eternity of the Human Race
19
III
The Prometheus Mythologem in the 'Theogony'
33
IV
Archaic Prometheus Mythology
50
V
Methodological Intermezzo
63
VI
The World in Possession of Fire
69
VII
The Fire Stealer
77
VIII
The 'Prometheus Bound'
83
IX
Prometheus the Knowing One
93
X
The Promethean Prophecy
107
XI
'Prometheus Delivered'
112
XII
Conclusion after Goethe
129
Abbreviations
134
List of Works Cited
135
Index
145