There are a great many to chose from, though some are very, very long. In a haphazardly chronological list:
Schelling: Historico-critical introduction to the philosophy of Mytthology Cassirer: Language and Myth __ :Philosophy of Symbolic forms vol 1 & 2 (especially vol 2) Eliade: Myth and Reality Blumenberg: Work on Myth Bottici: A Philosophy of Political Myth I have only had the chance to browse Botticis book, but it looks promising. Blumenberg is excellent though very long. Cassirer is also very interesting but again long. Eliade is Romanian. If any anyone's interest is piqued by one of these books, I am sure we could work something out; I might be able to determine which chapters in Blumenberg's opus are absolutely necessary to read, and which can be safely skipped, but I cannot promise anything. I advise against starting with Schelling. On Fri, Mar 5, 2010 at 7:31 PM, <[email protected]> wrote: > Imago6 writes:More substantively, however: Mr Conger, I too am fascinated > by the notion of > Myth and Reality. I am hardly an expert, but if you woudl like to pursue > the notions, I would gladly participate and help lead a reading of some > text > or another. > > Could you suggest a text ? > Kate Sullivan
