This text investigates the significance of myth in the context of the survival of civilization and cultures. Such an examination is conducted by way of the two leading philosophers on myth, Cassirer and Langer.

This is the first book-length critical analysis in any language of Hans Blumenberg's theory of myth. Blumenberg can be regarded as the most important German theorist of myth of the second half of the twentieth century, and his　Work on Myth　(1979) has resonated across disciplines ranging from literary theory, via philosophy, religious studies and anthropology, to the history and philosophy of science.

Nicholls introduces Anglophone readers to Blumenberg's biography and to his philosophical contexts. He elucidates Blumenberg's theory of myth by relating...

This volume surveys the history of psychoanalytic treatments of myths variously as symptoms of psychopathology, as cultural defence mechanisms, and as metaphoric expressions of ideas that may include therapeutic insights.

First Published in 2002. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Kenneth Burke was a rhetorician, philosopher, linguist, sociologist, literary and music critic, eccentric and one of the foremost theorists of literary form. This book comprises seven chapters that examine Burke's writing in myth language, religion, rhetoric and the environment.

First published in 2002. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.