Mythic Thinking in Twentieth-Century Britain

Meaning for Modernity

Nonfiction, Religion & Spirituality, Philosophy, History, Criticism, & Surveys, British
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Author: M. Sterenberg ISBN: 9781137354976
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan UK Publication: June 1, 2016
Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan Language: English
Author: M. Sterenberg
ISBN: 9781137354976
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan UK
Publication: June 1, 2016
Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan
Language: English

A variety of thinkers used the concept of myth to articulate their anxieties about modernity. By telling the story of mythic thinking in Britain from its origins in Victorian social anthropology to its postwar cultural mainstreaming, this book reveals a yearning for transcendence in an age long assumed to be disenchanted.

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A variety of thinkers used the concept of myth to articulate their anxieties about modernity. By telling the story of mythic thinking in Britain from its origins in Victorian social anthropology to its postwar cultural mainstreaming, this book reveals a yearning for transcendence in an age long assumed to be disenchanted.

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