TY - BOOK ID - 1256547 TI - The presence of myth AU - Kolakowski, Leszek AU - Czerniawski, Adam PY - 1989 SN - 0226450414 0226450570 9780226222257 022622225X 9780226450414 PB - Chicago (Ill.) : University of Chicago press, DB - UniCat KW - Philosophy and psychology of culture KW - Culture KW - Man KW - Myth KW - Human beings KW - #gsdbF KW - Homo sapiens KW - Human race KW - Humanity (Human beings) KW - Humankind KW - Humans KW - Mankind KW - People KW - Hominids KW - Persons KW - Demythologization KW - God KW - Gods KW - Mythology KW - Religion KW - Cultural sociology KW - Sociology of culture KW - Civilization KW - Social aspects KW - Culture. KW - Human beings. KW - Myth. KW - Popular culture KW - mythology, myth, folklore, culture, media, italy, humanism, politics, political science, cynicism, epistemology, experience, perception, marxism, jung, jesus, religion, faith, belief, understanding, meaning, purpose, nonfiction, philosophy, heidegger, descartes, aquinas, freud, augustine, sartre, spinoza, pascal, nietzsche, marx, plato, husserl, hume, hobbes, leviathan, society, human nature. UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:1256547 AB - "[An] important essay by a philosopher who more convincingly than any other I can think of demonstrates the continuing significance of his vocation in the life of our culture."-Karsten Harries, The New York Times Book Review With The Presence of Myth, Kolakowski demonstrates that no matter how hard man strives for purely rational thought, there has always been-and always will be-a reservoir of mythical images that lend "being" and "consciousness" a specifically human meaning. "Kolakowski undertakes a philosophy of culture which extends to all realms of human intercourse-intellectual, artistic, scientific, and emotional. . . . [His] book has real significance for today, and may well become a classic in the philosophy of culture."-Anglican Theological Review ER -