Grove Atlantic/159 pgs
Good condition
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Karen Armstrong is among the world’s leading thinkers on human belief systems and this concise, clear, absorbing primer on the history and manifestations of mythology has emerged as a definitive text on the subject.
Armstrong guides us from the Paleolithic period and the myths of the hunters right up to the “Great Western Transformation” of the last five hundred years and the discrediting of myth by science. The history of myth is the history of humanity; our stories and beliefs, our curiosity, and our attempts to understand the world link us to our ancestors and to one another. Myths help us make sense of the universe.
Armstrong’s characteristically insightful and eloquent book serves as a brilliant and thought-provoking introduction to myth in the broadest sense—and why if we dismiss it we do so at our peril.
Grove Atlantic/159 pgs
Good condition
___________________________________________
Karen Armstrong is among the world’s leading thinkers on human belief systems and this concise, clear, absorbing primer on the history and manifestations of mythology has emerged as a definitive text on the subject.
Armstrong guides us from the Paleolithic period and the myths of the hunters right up to the “Great Western Transformation” of the last five hundred years and the discrediting of myth by science. The history of myth is the history of humanity; our stories and beliefs, our curiosity, and our attempts to understand the world link us to our ancestors and to one another. Myths help us make sense of the universe.
Armstrong’s characteristically insightful and eloquent book serves as a brilliant and thought-provoking introduction to myth in the broadest sense—and why if we dismiss it we do so at our peril.
