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Type of bind: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 109
EAN num: 9780226075198
ISBN number: 0226075192
Label: University Of Chicago Press
Manufacturer: University Of Chicago Press
Quantity: 1
Page Count: 244
Printing Date: December 15, 2000
Publishing house: University Of Chicago Press
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The word myth is commonly thought to mean a fictional story, but few know that Plato was the very first to use the term muthos in that sense. He also used muthos to describe the practice of making and telling stories, the oral transmission of all that a community keeps in its collective memory. In the very first part of Plato the Myth Maker, Luc Brisson reconstructs Plato's multifaceted description of muthos in light of the latter's Atlantis story. The second part of the book contrasts this sense of myth with another form of speech that Plato believed was far superior: the logos of philosophy.
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