This volume brings together senior and junior scholars from across the globe to revisit the question of myth in the history of philosophy. They explore the structure of mythical symbolism and the problem of the meaning of myth.
This volume brings together senior and junior scholars from across the globe to revisit the question of myth in the history of philosophy. By exploring the structure of mythical symbolism, and focusing on the problem of mythical meaning, the volume lays bare the tautegorical approach to the philosophy of mythology, first initiated by F.W.J. Schelling in the 19th century and later by Ernst Cassirer. The authors further explore the philosophy of mythology in other key figures of 19-20th century European philosophy, including Claude Lévi-Strauss, Friedrich Nietzsche, Emmanuel Levinas, Jacques Derrida, and Hans Blumenberg, among others. Given the ubiquitous character of myth, they further investigate the intersection of European philosophy and Japanese philosophy by addressing the problem of myth in Tanabe Hajime and Kiyozawa Manshi.
Table of contents:
Jason M. Wirth: Forward -
Gregory S. Moss: Introduction: The Tautegorical Turn in the Philosophy of Mythology
I. F.W.J. Schelling and the Tautegorical Structure of MythJesper Lundsfryd Rasmussen: Mythos as Self-Contained Intermediary: Nature, Reality, and Mythology in Context of Schelling's System of Knowledge (1800) -
Martijn Buijs: Autonomy, Theonomy, and Ontonomy in Schelling's Philosophy of Mythology -
Michael Hackl: Mythology and Nature: Schelling's Expression of Reason -
Deborah Casewell: Rewriting Mythology: Tautegory, Ontology, and the Novel -
Sakura Yahata: Schelling's Perspective on Oriental Mythology in the Philosophy of Art -
Ammon Allred: Monotheism or Mythology in German Idealism
II. Ernst Cassirer and the Autonomy of MythologyStefan Niklas: Cassirer, Star Wars, and the Aesthetic Transformation of Mythical Consciousness -
Andrew Tsz Wan Hung: Ernst Cassirer and Charles Taylor on Language and Myth
III. From Tautegory to Allegory: Nietzsche and Lévi-Strauss on MythKwok Kui Wong: Schelling and Nietzsche on Dionysus -
Meng-Shi Chen: Nietzsche and Mythological Metaphor: On the Significance of the Allegory of Dionysus's Dismemberment in The Birth of Tragedy -
Carlos Joao Correia: Lévi-Strauss and the Definition of Myth: Wagnerian Variations
IV. The Phenomenology of Mythology: From Blumenberg to TanabeBryan Smyth: Critical Phenomenology and the Mythopoetics of Nature -
Man-to Tang: On White Mythology in Contemporary French Philosophy: Derrida and Ricoeur -
Kelvin Ka Ho Li: Mytho-logy and Transcendence: A Tanabean-Levinasian Perspective -
Dennis Prooi: Kiyozawa, Tanabe, and the Mythology of Other-Power
