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Mythic Imagination Today: The Interpenetration of Mythology and Science

Mythic Imagination Today: The Interpenetration of Mythology and Science

Marks-Tarlow, Terry

Paperback

Mythology & FolkloreGeneral Sociology

ISBN10: 900444842X
ISBN13: 9789004448421
Publisher: Brill
Published: Jan 21 2021
Pages: 142
Weight: 0.48
Height: 0.32 Width: 6.10 Depth: 9.21
Language: English
Mythic Imagination Today is an illustrated guide to the interpenetration of mythology and science throughout the ages. This monograph brings alive our collective need for story to guide the rules, roles, and relationships of everyday life. Whereas mythology is born primarily of perception and imagination, science emerges from systematic observation and experimentation. Both disciplines arise from endless curiosity about the workings of the Universe combined with creative urges to transform inner and outer worlds. Both disciplines are located within open neural wiring that gives rise to uniquely human capacities for learning, memory, and metaphor. Terry Marks-Tarlow explores the origins of story within the social brain; mythmakers and myths from multiple cultures; and how contemporary sciences of chaos and complexity theories and fractal geometry dovetail with ancient wisdom. The ancient Greek myth of Psyche and Eros is unpacked in detail--origins of the very concepts of 'psyche' and 'psychology'.

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