The Wisdom of Myths and the Myths of Wisdom

Abstract

Origins of the Sacred is exemplary in both a positive and negative sense: on the one hand, it is a great work of scholarship and synthesis; and, on the other, it reflects, with admirable lucidity, a prevailing climate of opinion amongst contemporary humanist intellectuals. Young is in many respects a prisoner of the opinions current among ‘culture critics’, which is why a critique of the ideas advanced in his book naturally opens on to wider themes — on to a more general critique of contemporary cultural criticism. These keywords were added by machine and not by the authors. This process is experimental and the keywords may be updated as the learning algorithm improves.

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