Deconstructing Myth

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Pages:: 233–247

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004435025_013

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Myth has a convoluted etymological history in terms of its origins, meanings, and functions. Throughout this essay I explore the signification, structure, and essence of myth in terms of its source, force, form, object, and teleology derived from archaic ontology. Here I offer a theoretic typology of myth by engaging the work of contemporary scholar, Robert Segal, who places fine distinctions on criteria of explanation versus interpretation when theorizing about myth. Through my analysis of an explanandum and an explanans, I argue that both interpretation and explanation are acts of explication that signify the ontological significance, truth, and psychic reality of myth in both individuals and social collectives. I conclude that, in essence, myth is a form of inner sense.

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Explaining, Interpreting, and Theorizing Religion and Myth

Contributions in Honor of Robert A. Segal

Series: Supplements to Method & Theory in the Study of Religion, Volume: 16

Cover Explaining, Interpreting, and Theorizing Religion and Myth

E-Book ISBN:: 9789004435025

Publisher:: Brill

Print Publication Date:: 09 Jun 2020

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