EP 16: The Golden Bough
Pathways with Joseph Campbell
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The Great Project of the Nineteenth Century Scholarship
The great project of nineteenth century scholarship was to present a kind of unified field theory that encompassed and explained the world as a whole. Social darwinism only succeeded in institutionalizing social injustice, he writes. Critical theory such as post modernism and deconstruction are the most recent attempts at critiquing and correcting the cultural status quo,. He says we would be well served by developing a kind of double vision which allows us to live in both the old and the new at once.
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