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Thought Provoking!,
This review is from: Myth and Thought among the Greeks (Paperback)
I'm so glad I came across this book in my university library. I was trying to answer the question, How did Greek philosophy originate within a world of irrationality--mythology, Eastern religions controlled by the aristocracy, etc.? This book answered the question and gave me much more to think about. The seemingly miraculous origin of rationality did not emerge in a vacuum; it was dependent upon and yet also at difference with past paradigms like mythology and current explorations in geometry, politics, society, economics, etc. I read chapter 18 and basically underlined and made notes on every page! I want to go back and read all the other chapters sometime, because Vernant explains things so clearly, intelligently, and influentially. If you are at all interested in understanding how the first rational thinking developed, why it happened, and what this says about the Greek culture and human beings universally, read this book sometime.
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Myth and Thought among the Greeks by Jean Pierre Vernant (Paperback - May 12, 2006)
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