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Greek Myths for a Post-Truth World

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312 Seiten
Englisch
Bloomsbury Academicerscheint am03.10.2024
Yiannis Gabriel examines what ancient Greek myths can teach us about the troubles and challenges of our 'post-truth' times: environmental degradation, mass migration, war, inequality, exclusion, authoritarianism and perplexing technological possibilities. It shows how Greek myths continue to stir our emotions and shape our experiences, while also assuming new meanings in contemporary culture that suggest a diversity of possible answers to questions that preoccupy us today. In addition to acting as fountains of meaning when meaning is precarious and fragmented, Greek myths have a therapeutic power connecting us to the predicaments that humans have faced across the ages.Across centuries and millennia, Cassandra makes her unheeded prophecies and Pandora unleashes fresh troubles from her box. Yet, each age discovers new meaning and value in old stories, and different myths come into prominence as they address the aspirations and anxieties of each. Using ten ancient myths as his points of departure, Yiannis Gabriel invites readers to think and experience the world we inhabit mythologically - to engage with emotions and symbolism that lurk deeply inside old texts and to consider different courses of action, both individual and collective. In addition to providing intellectual stimulation, the book shows that Greek myths can be a source of practical wisdom and re-assurance that we so badly need in our times.mehr
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KlappentextYiannis Gabriel examines what ancient Greek myths can teach us about the troubles and challenges of our 'post-truth' times: environmental degradation, mass migration, war, inequality, exclusion, authoritarianism and perplexing technological possibilities. It shows how Greek myths continue to stir our emotions and shape our experiences, while also assuming new meanings in contemporary culture that suggest a diversity of possible answers to questions that preoccupy us today. In addition to acting as fountains of meaning when meaning is precarious and fragmented, Greek myths have a therapeutic power connecting us to the predicaments that humans have faced across the ages.Across centuries and millennia, Cassandra makes her unheeded prophecies and Pandora unleashes fresh troubles from her box. Yet, each age discovers new meaning and value in old stories, and different myths come into prominence as they address the aspirations and anxieties of each. Using ten ancient myths as his points of departure, Yiannis Gabriel invites readers to think and experience the world we inhabit mythologically - to engage with emotions and symbolism that lurk deeply inside old texts and to consider different courses of action, both individual and collective. In addition to providing intellectual stimulation, the book shows that Greek myths can be a source of practical wisdom and re-assurance that we so badly need in our times.
Details
ISBN/GTIN978-1-350-37657-1
ProduktartBuch
EinbandartGebunden
FormatGenäht
Erscheinungsjahr2024
Erscheinungsdatum03.10.2024
Seiten312 Seiten
SpracheEnglisch
MasseBreite 138 mm, Höhe 216 mm, Dicke 25 mm
Gewicht454 g
Artikel-Nr.61399527
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GenreGeschichte/Politik

Inhalt/Kritik

Inhaltsverzeichnis
MapPrefaceIntroduction1. The Narrative Veil: Truths and Untruths, Facts and Fantasies2. Iphigenia: Escaping From the Shadows3. Phaëthon: Flying High Before Crashing4. Oedipus and Thebes: Miasma, Contagion and Cleansing5. Zeus and Frogs: Craving For Strongman in Times of Uncertainty6. Odysseus and Nausicaa: Encounters With the Uprooted Other7. Narcissus and Echo: A Culture of Narcissism or a Culture of Echoes?8. The Trojan War and the Argonautic Expedition: Heroic Missions, Leadership and Hubris9. Odysseus and the Sirens: Songs, Noise and SilenceEpilogue: Beyond the Strife of Myth and ReasonAppendix: Plato's Myth of ErReading OnBibliographyNotesIndexmehr

Autor

Yiannis Gabriel is Professor Emeritus of Organizational Theory at the University of Bath, UK, and Visiting Professor at Lund University, Sweden. He is author of Music and Story: A Two-Part Invention (2022), Myths, Stories, and Organizations: Premodern Narratives for Our Times (2004) and Storytelling In Organizations: Facts, Fictions, and Fantasies (2000).