Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/1959.11/16406
Title: Myth
Contributor(s): Giordano, Diego (author); McDonald, William  (author)
Publication Date: 2014
Handle Link: https://hdl.handle.net/1959.11/16406
Abstract: The Danish word 'Mythe' (in modern orthography 'Myte') generally refers to a purely fictional narrative, usually involving supernatural persons, actions, or events, and embodying some popular idea, concerning natural or historical phenomena. In particular it refers to stories handed down from olden times regarding the lives of the gods. In its broadest sense, the word refers to any narrative containing fictitious elements, sometimes with the connotation that the narrative lacks veracity. Kierkegaard adopts the Latinized form 'Mythe'. In Kierkegaard's works the most frequent occurrence of the word "myth" (or "mythical") is in 'The Concept of Irony', where the concept is richly discussed in connection with Plato's dialectics, particularly his earlier dialogues, in a subsection of the first part of the book entitled "The Mythical in the Earlier Platonic Dialogues as a Token of a More Copious Speculation." Here Kierkegaard asks the reader to notice the ambivalence implicit in the gap between the dialectical and the mythical and identifies at least three elements of myth.
Publication Type: Book Chapter
Source of Publication: Kierkegaards Concepts - Tome IV: Individual to Novel, p. 223-226
Publisher: Ashgate Publishing
Place of Publication: Farnham, United Kingdom
ISBN: 9781472444639
Fields of Research (FoR) 2008: 220405 Religion and Society
220209 History of Ideas
Fields of Research (FoR) 2020: 500405 Religion, society and culture
500207 History of ideas
Socio-Economic Objective (SEO) 2008: 970122 Expanding Knowledge in Philosophy and Religious Studies
Socio-Economic Objective (SEO) 2020: 280119 Expanding knowledge in philosophy and religious studies
HERDC Category Description: B1 Chapter in a Scholarly Book
Publisher/associated links: http://nla.gov.au/anbd.bib-an53736546
Series Name: Kierkegaard Research Sources, Reception and Resources
Series Number : 15
Editor: Editor(s): Steven Emmanuel, William McDonald and Jon Stewart
Appears in Collections:Book Chapter

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