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Faculty of
Catholic Theology
From Physical World to
Human World: The Course of
Modern Theorising about Myth
Professor Robert Segal (University of Aberdeen)
Wednesday, 20 May 2015, 18:30
University of Vienna, Lecture Hall 47, Universitätsring 1, 1010 Vienna
In the nineteenth century
myth was assumed to have
done for ancients and “primi­
tives“ 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the outdated counterpart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 c­ onflicting with
science?
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