Mythic Thinking in Twentieth-Century Britain
Meaning for Modernity
Nonfiction, Religion & Spirituality, Philosophy, History, Criticism, & Surveys, British
| Author: | M. Sterenberg | ISBN: | 9781137354976 |
| Publisher: | Palgrave Macmillan UK | Publication: | June 1, 2016 |
| Imprint: | Palgrave Macmillan | Language: | English |
| Author: | M. Sterenberg |
| ISBN: | 9781137354976 |
| Publisher: | Palgrave Macmillan UK |
| Publication: | June 1, 2016 |
| Imprint: | Palgrave Macmillan |
| Language: | English |
A variety of thinkers used the concept of myth to articulate their anxieties about modernity. By telling the story of mythic thinking in Britain from its origins in Victorian social anthropology to its postwar cultural mainstreaming, this book reveals a yearning for transcendence in an age long assumed to be disenchanted.
A variety of thinkers used the concept of myth to articulate their anxieties about modernity. By telling the story of mythic thinking in Britain from its origins in Victorian social anthropology to its postwar cultural mainstreaming, this book reveals a yearning for transcendence in an age long assumed to be disenchanted.
