Is There a Myth of the Myth
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 3896393 |
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| Authors | Tshiamalenga Ntumba (Université Catholique du Congo, corresponding author) |
| Year | 1985 |
| Volume | 33 |
| Issue | 132 |
| Pages | 116-139 |
| Publication date | 1985-07-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Diogenes (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0392-1921 • E-ISSN: 1467-7695 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1177/039219218503313208 |
| OpenAlex | W1970663419 |
| Language | EN |
To pose the question of myth and truth is to pose three complementary questions: that of myth, that of truth and that of their relationship. It is also to pose a still more fundamental question: that of knowing if the question of myth and truth is not badly put. a pseudo-problem. In other words, is there not a "myth" of the "myth" and, perhaps, of truth? More precisely, is there a philosophical problem of the myth that is not at the same time a problem of language, of its usage and its claim to truth? The myth-philosophy-science hierarchization is not perhaps itself a "supermyth"? Is not myth always a certain philosophy? And science, is it not always an undertaking of testing concepts suffused in a non-scientific context, i.e., philosophical, religious or mythical
Art · Literature · Mythology · Kantian Philosophy and Modern Interpretations · Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy · Wittgensteinian philosophy and applications
| Highly cited | No |
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