Myth and Modern Man

Previous owner's rubber names stamp on front endpaper. Dust-jacket protected in archival mylar cover.; (xii), 359, [1 (blank)] pages. Grey cloth boards with silver lettering on spine. Page dimensions: 228 x1 52mm. "Why is Ajax's White Knight the answer to the housewife's dreams? What fulfillment is there in patronizing the Playboy Club that compels men to return time after time? Why is Lenin immortalized, while Stalin, who was even more worshipped during his lifetime, is now disparaged? Wh do people see and believe in UFO's? The astonishing fact is that these phenomena, and many more like them, are manifestations of the working of myth in the midst of our everyday lives." - from dust-jacket blurb. Contents: Introduction; Myth Interpretation Through the Ages; Students of Man into Mythopoets; Myth and History; Myths of the Future; The Myth of the Marxist World; The Nazi Myth; The Case of Che, or: He Must First Die; Marion Delgado, or: The Myth of the Child Terrorist; Religion as Myth in Modern Life; New Myths for Old Faiths; The Myth of the God Who Died, or: The "God Is Dead" Theology; Myths for New Black Faiths; Herakles in America; The "Mickey" Myth; The Myths of Oral Gratification, or: Coke and Smoke; Madison Avenue Myth and Magic; Jerry, Whitey, and Baby; The Destructive Myth: Self-castration and Suicide; The New Sex Myth; The Myth of Planetary Escape: Wanted: A Charter Myth for Democracy; Chapter Notes; Index.…