From Physical World to Human World Professor Robert Segal (University of Aberdeen) Wednesday, 20 May 2015, 18:30, University of Vienna, Lecture Hall 47, Universitätsring 1, 1010 Vienna The Course of Modern Theorising about Myth In the nineteenth century myth was assumed to have done for ancients and “primitives“ what science does for moderns: explain events in the world around us. In the twentieth century myth was assumed to be anything but the outdated counterpart to science. It was no longer about the physical world, or else it no longer served to explain that world. Can myth in the present century bring us back to the physical world, but without conflicting with science? Biography • 2006–date Sixth Century Chair in Religious Studies, University of Aberdeen • 1999–2006 Professor of Theories of Religion, Lancaster University • 1996–1999 Reader in Theory of Religion, Lancaster University • 1994–1996 Lecturer, Department of Religious Studies, Lancaster University • 1989–1994 Full Professor of Religious Studies, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge SELECTED Books • Myth: Critical Concepts in Literary and Cultural Studies. 4 vols. London and New York: Routledge, 2007 • The Blackwell Companion to the Study of Religion. Oxford and Malden, MA: Blackwell, 2006 • Myth: A Very Short Introduction. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2004 • Jung on Mythology. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1998