Making Sense of Myth: Conversations with Luc Brisson

by Gerard Naddaf

To most, myths are merely fantastic stories. But for Luc Brisson, one of the great living Plato scholars, myth is a key factor in what it means to be human - a condition of life for all. Essential and inescapable, myth offers a guide for living, forming the core of belonging and group identity. In 1999 Quebec classicist Louis-Andr Dorion published a series of French conversations with Brisson on the idea of myth. In Making Sense of Myth Gerard Naddaf...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0228020700
• ISBN13: 9780228020707
• Release Date: March 2024
• Publisher: McGill-Queen's University Press
• Length: 330 Pages