The Absence of Myth

Despite contemporary attempts to revive myth, this book argues that we are living in a world without myth and looks at what this means for humankind. In this provocative work, Sophia Heller challenges the assumption that we cannot be without myth, that myth is necessary to vital, soulful living. Indeed, Heller argues, we have been living in a world without myth for a long time. The Absence of Myth examines the loss of a religious mode of being-in-the-world and demonstrates how theorists who insi