| Description |
1 online resource (xvii, 279 pages) |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Intro; Contents; Epigraphs; Prologue; The Actual, the Hypothetical, and the Utterly False; Chapter One; Chapter Two; Chapter Three; Why People Took to Collective Illusions; Chapter Four; Chapter Five; Chapter Six; Repair? Retrofit? Or Replace?; Chapter Seven; Chapter Eight; Myths of the Commonwealth; Chapter Nine; Chapter Ten; Chapter Eleven; Chapter Twelve; References; Index |
| Summary |
Combining philosophy, science, and literature, Mythic Worlds and the One You Can Believe In examines lingering misconceptions of world history as a continuing source of international tension. Awareness of the natural continuum, currently gauged at some 13.8 billion years overall, disarms sectarian zealotry and, in retrospect, explains some of the difficulties the literary and philosophical traditions have had in accommodating their beliefs to what undeniably exists. To this day, beliefs incompatible with natural history continue to intensify nationalism and support terrorist movements. As a wo. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
History -- Errors, inventions, etc.
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Philosophy. |
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Cultural studies. |
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Religion: general. |
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HISTORY -- World. |
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History -- Errors, inventions, etc. |
| Other Form: |
Print version: Toliver, Harold E. Mythic worlds and the one you can believe in. Newcastle upon Tyne, UK : Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2017 144388653X (OCoLC)989038457 |
| ISBN |
9781527511910 (electronic bk.) |
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152751191X (electronic bk.) |
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144388653X |
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9781443886536 |
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1527506037 |
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9781527506039 |
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