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Title: Myths and Arts False, dangerous and modern Myths


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Myths and ArtsFalse, dangerous and modern Myths
  • Vesa Matteo Piludu

Department of Comparative Religion University of
Helsinki
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Myths as lies
  • By the Christian era, the Greco-Roman world had
    started to use the term "myth" to mean "fable,
    fiction, lie" as a result, early Christian
    writers used "myth" with this meaning

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Myths according to the philosophers of
Enghlitenment and the positivists
  • Myth opposed to logos (rational discourse)
  • Myth were synonym of false and irrational, old,
    unfashionable, simple
  • The philosophes such as Voltaire, were interested
    in dispelling myths, not explaining their
    existence or their complexity

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Myths in the modern common sense
  • In popular use, a myth can also be a collectively
    held belief that has no basis
  • This usage, which is often pejorative, arose from
    labeling the religious myths and beliefs of other
    cultures as being incorrect, but it has spread to
    cover non-religious beliefs as well
  • This usage is frequently associated with legend,
    fiction, fairy tale, folklore, fable, confusing
    data, personal desire and urban legend, each of
    which has a distinct meaning
  • Urban myth is an alternative term for urban
    legend
  • Because of this popular and subjective word
    usage, many people take offense when the
    religious narratives they believe to be true are
    called myths

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The Myth of the Titanic
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Ronald Barthes Mythologiesdangerous damned
modern myths
  • Modern Myths are icons admired without
    discussion or popular -nationalistic stories
    that are considered to be true without any proof
    of evidence
  • Modern myths are like a stolen language
  • Who manipulates myths use particular statements
    as universal truth
  • Myths are part of the Doxa (common sense)
  • Modern myths has hidden ideological meanings
  • Myths are not only narratives, but phenomena of
    everyday life
  • Ethnographic semiotic on the road advertising,
    films, business life, daily food
  • Divas of the cinemas, the myth of Senna
    Gardel as an icon of tango
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