Mythos To Modernity
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Mythos to Modernity
In Mythos to Modernity, Pranjal Goyal takes you on an enthralling journey through the timeless tales of Indian mythology, revealing their profound relevance to our modern lives. From the wisdom of Krishna’s counsel in the Bhagavad Gita to the cosmic dance of Shiva, and from the perseverance of Ashwatthama to the symbolism of everyday rituals, this book bridges the gap between ancient wisdom and contemporary challenges. Discover the lesser-known stories of Mandodari, Goddess Aranyani, and Garuda, each offering invaluable insights into resilience, mindfulness, and purpose. Dive deep into the teachings of festivals, rituals, and traditions like the Kumbh Mela, unveiling their enduring significance in our fast-paced world. Written with clarity and passion, this book equips readers with practical applications of age-old knowledge—helping you find balance, unlock inner potential, and live a meaningful life amidst the chaos of modernity. Whether you are a seeker of spiritual wisdom, a lover of mythology, or simply curious about India's rich heritage, Mythos to Modernity will inspire you to embrace the eternal truths woven into the fabric of myth and reality. Unlock the power of ancient wisdom to navigate today’s complexities.
Modernity, Metatheory, and the Temporal-Spatial Divide
This book is about how modernity affects our perceptions of time and space. Its main argument is that geographical space is used to control temporal progress by channeling it to benefit particular political, economic and social interests, or by halting it altogether. By incorporating the ancient Greek myth of the Titanomachy as a conceptual metaphor to explore the elemental ideas of time and space, the author argues that hegemonic interests have developed spatial hierarchy into a comprehensive system of technocratic monoculture, which interrupts temporal development in order to maintain exclusive power and authority. This spatial stasis is reinforced through the control of historical narratives and geographical settings. While increasingly comprehensive, the author argues that this state of affairs can best be challenged by focusing on the development of "unmappable places" which presently exist within the socio-spatial matrix of the modern world.
Myth and the Making of Modernity
The contributors to this collection of essays on the literary use of myth in the early twentieth century and its literary and philosophical precedents from romanticism onwards draw on a range of disciplines, from anthropology, comparative literature, and literary criticism, to philosophy and religious studies. The underlying assumption is that modernist myth-making does not retreat from modernity, but projects a mode of being for the future which the past could serve to define. Modernist myth is not an attempted recovery of an archaic form of life so much as a sophisticated self-conscious equivalent. Far from seeking a return to an earlier romantic valorizing of myth, these essays show how the true interest of early twentieth-century myth-making lies in the consciousness, affirmative as well as tragic, of living in a human world which, in so far as it must embody value, can have no ultimate grounding. Although myth may initially appear to be the archaic counterterm to modernity, it is thus also the paradigm on which modernity has repeatedly reconstructed, or come to understand, its own life forms. The very term myth, by combining, in its modern usage, the rival meanings of a grounding narrative and a falsehood, encapsulates a central problem of modernity: how to live, given what we know.