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Luc Ferry

The Wisdom of the Myths

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“A marvelously wise and expansive book. … Ferry writes with warmth, wit, and energy; one could call his prose conversational, but it’s rare to have a conversation quite this wonderful.” — Boston Globe

A fascinating journey through Greek mythology that explains the myths' timeless lessons and meaning
Heroes, gods, and mortals. The Greek myths are the founding narratives of Western civilization: to understand them is to know the origins of philosophy, literature, art, science, law, and more. Indeed, as Luc Ferry shows in this masterful book, they remain a great store of wisdom, as relevant to our lives today as ever before. No mere legends or clichés («Herculean task,” “Pandora's box,” “Achilles heel,” etc.), these classic stories offer profound and manifold lessons, providing the first sustained attempt to answer fundamental human questions concerning “the good life,” the burden of mortality, and how to find one's place in the world. Vividly retelling the great tales of mythology and illuminating fresh new ways of understanding them, The Wisdom of the Myths will enlighten readers of all ages.
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478 бумажных страниц
Дата публикации оригинала
2014
Год выхода издания
2014
Издательства
Harper Perennial, HarperCollins
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  • rodquev11цитирует7 лет назад
    An alternative strategy was therefore needed, one that Hannah Arendt shows as coming to occupy a central position in Greek culture: namely heroism, and the glory it procures.
  • rodquev11цитирует7 лет назад
    in the sense that, through our children, something of us will survive our own demise, physically as well as spiritually: our facial features or physical resemblances, just like our traits of character, are preserved more or less intact in those we have raised and loved.
  • rodquev11цитирует7 лет назад
    And we are quite alone in this predicament, alone to perceive with unparalleled sharpness that there is in our lives

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