The Golden Horns: Mythic Imagination and the Nordic Past

Author/Contributor(s):	Greenway, John L
Publisher:	University of Georgia Press
Date:	06/01/2008
Binding:	Paperback
Condition:	NEW

Greenway postulates that we have inherited the romantic respect for myth as truth but lack the romantic faith in transcendence necessary to establish myth's reality. Consequently, we express our mythic consciousness of who we are in quasi-scientific language, consciously manipulating mythic symbols for social control.