Showing posts with label plot. Show all posts
Showing posts with label plot. Show all posts
Wednesday, May 15, 2013
From the Archives: The Self and its Sources Part 11
The main story of human culture – culture’s ‘plot’
Monday, May 13, 2013
From the Archives: The Self and its Sources Part 10
More definitions of "plot": the main story.
Myth (an operative fiction with its fictionality suppressed).
Western skepticism and the scientific spirit have a moral core.
Plot: a secret plan or scheme.
Saturday, May 11, 2013
From the Archives: The Self and its Sources Part 9
Sacrifice at the heart of the central monument of western culture. The ancient Greeks as “equal opportunity victimizers”?
The plot is where the sacrificial victim is buried.
The cosmos and the corpse come into being at the same instant.
Thursday, May 09, 2013
Tuesday, May 07, 2013
From the Archives: The Self and its Sources Part 7
Plot – the ground plan of a building - Mircea Eliade: a New Guinea ritual
Sunday, May 05, 2013
From the Archives: The Self and its Sources Part 6
Ancient historic background of the word ‘plot’ as a measured piece of land - the sacrality of the terminus.
Friday, May 03, 2013
From the Archives: The Self and its Sources Part 5
Ancient Roman practice of demarcating a plot of land.
Wednesday, May 01, 2013
From the Archives: The Self and its Sources Part 4
The source of primitive people’s attention. The tended plot of ground, a garden and a grave - the site of sacrality.
Monday, April 29, 2013
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