Myths Have Their Reasons. Isaac Ariail Reed, The Hedgehog Review
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Recommended Reading: Myths Have Their Reasons.
Exploring myth as background and subject matter for politics.
“There’s a certain account of modern society that goes something like this. Once upon a time, primitive peoples believed in myths about gods, goddesses, and supernatural events. Pre-modern folk told and re-told these fantastic tales because such stories made sense of their world and they were useful for binding people together for common action. But eventually, at least by the time of the Enlightenment, we grew up and no longer needed these myths. We exchanged obsolete and now embarrassing traditions for science and public reason.
This extremely popular account of modernity, of course, is deeply flawed in a number of important ways. As Isaac Ariail Reed, professor of sociology at UVA and senior fellow at the Institute, points out in his review of Tae-Yeoun Keum’s new book Plato and the Mythic Tradition in Political Thought, modern political thinking is rife with myth.” — The Hedgehog Review
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