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Auteur(s) : Naddaf, Gérard (1950-....) Voir les notices liées en tant qu'auteur
Dorion, Louis-André Voir les notices liées en tant qu'auteur

Titre(s) : Making sense of myth [Texte imprimé] : conversations with Luc Brisson / Gerard Naddaf with Louis-André Dorion

Traduction de : Rendre raison au mythe : entretiens avec Luc Brisson

Description matérielle : 1 volume (x-316 pages) ; 24 cm

Note(s) : Bibliogr. pages [283]-292. Notes bibliographiques. Index
"To most, myths are merely fantastic stories. But for Luc Brisson, one of the great living Plato scholars, myth is a key factor in what it means to be human--a condition of life for all. Essential and inescapable, myth offers a guide for living, forming the core of belonging and group identity. In 1999 philosopher Louis-Andre Dorion published a series of conversations with Brisson on the idea of myth. In Making Sense of Myth Gerard Naddaf offers an extended and updated English translation of these conversations, as well as a new set of discussions between himself and Brisson. Beginning with his childhood in the village of Saint-Esprit, Quebec, and continuing through his years in Paris, first as a graduate student and later at the Centre national de la recherche scientifique (CNRS), Brisson tells the story of his escape from an all-encompassing myth--the myth promulgated by the Roman Catholic Church. The philosopher situates Quebec society as inseparable from the history of the Catholic Church in Quebec, and argues that this correlation offers a perfect paradigm of myth and mythmaking. Naddaf's introduction and afterword contextualizes the conversations by discussing Brisson's and Plato's understanding of the origin and meaning of myth, and elaborates the role of myth in anthropogeny and in the creation of selfhood. Making Sense of Myth promises both a philosophy of myth and a philosophy of life, one inspired by Brisson's lifelong engagement with the great Western philosopher Plato."
Issued also in electronic format.

Autre(s) forme(s) du titre :
- Autre forme du titre : Conversations with Luc Brisson

Sujet(s) : Brisson, Luc (1946-....) -- Mythe Voir les notices liées en tant que sujet
Platon (0427?-0348? av. J.-C.) -- Mythe Voir les notices liées en tant que sujet
Mythe -- Philosophie Voir les notices liées en tant que sujet