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In this rich examination of how we inherit and transform myths, Hans Blumenberg continues his study of the philosophical roots of the modern world.
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The first two parts of this five-part study elaborate a ``philosophical anthropology.'' Blumenberg sees man as having evolved to a position less tenable than the rest of nature, with a ``deficit of instinct'' and ``lacking a biological niche.'' Myth, in this schemaand contrary to the conventional wisdomis not opposed to reason, but is complementary to it: most important, it enables man better to cope with the ``absolutism of reality.'' The last three parts present a history of the Prometheus myth; the discussion ranges over Greek and Roman mythology to Goethe, Freud, Mann, Cassirer, Joyce, Valery, and Nietzsche, among many others. Though somewhat less unitary and focused than the author's The Legitimacy of the Modern Age ( LJ 5/1/83), this work is no less provocative and stimulating. Leon H. Brody, U.S. Office of Personnel Management Lib., Washington, D.C.
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