title: Rаtionality, conceptual imagination and myth
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metadata.value: Soboleva, Maja E.
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metadata.name: dc.date.accessioned
metadata.value: 2021-11-02T13:26:00Z
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metadata.name: dc.date.available
metadata.value: 2021-11-02T13:26:00Z
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metadata.name: dc.date.issued
metadata.value: 2021-09
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metadata.name: dc.identifier.citation
metadata.value: Soboleva M. E. Rаtionality, conceptual imagination and myth. Vestnik of Saint Petersburg University. Philosophy and Conflict Studies, 2021, vol. 37, issue 3, pp. 479–492.
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metadata.value: https://doi.org/10.21638/spbu17.2021.309
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metadata.value: http://hdl.handle.net/11701/33393
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metadata.name: dc.description.abstract
metadata.value: The article addresses the problem of how myth relates to rationality. In the classical formulation,
  this question appears in the following manner: are mythos and logos opposites? It can
  be stated that myth has become one of the key themes of philosophy in the 20th century. It has
  been studied in ethnography and anthropology, cultural studies, art theory, political science
  and even in the theory of knowledge. Myth is understood not only as a special artistic form,
  but also a special form of intuition, form of thinking, and form of life. Despite the sometimes
  cardinal difference in approaches to the analysis of myth, one common feature in its understanding
  can be identified. Mythical thinking is considered either as irrational or as protorational.
  For example, in Cassirer and Blumenberg, myth appears as an affective rationality,
  in Vico and Schelling — as a poetic rationality. The reason for this can be seen in the fact that
  myth is considered as a product of imagination. The latter is indisputable, but does this mean
  that myth and rationality are incompatible? In order to answer this question, the concept of
  imagination should be analyzed. Drawing on the theories of Hume, Aristotle, and Kant, the
  author contends that there is a special type of imagination referred to as “conceptual”, which is
  a human capacity of spontaneous production of concepts. The conceptual imagination seems
  to be a distinctive feature of human rationality. However, if this is so, then rationality is a
  condition of myth and not its counterpart. Myth and discursive thinking thus turn out to be
  merely different forms of realization of our human rationality, of which discursive imagination
  is the common basis.
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metadata.name: dc.description.sponsorship
metadata.value: The author is grateful for the support provided by the Austrian Science Fund (FWF) under grant
  number M 2590-G32.
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.language.iso
metadata.value: en
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.publisher
metadata.value: St Petersburg State University
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metadata.name: dc.relation.ispartofseries
metadata.value: Vestnik of St Petersburg University. Philosophy and Conflict Studies;Volume 37; Issue 3
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metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: myth
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: conceptual imagination
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: imagination
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: rationality
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: Aristotle
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: Hume
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metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: Kant
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.title
metadata.value: Rаtionality, conceptual imagination and myth
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metadata.value: Article
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