Books written by Karl Kerényi
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Science of Mythology: Essays on the Myth of the Divine Child and the Mysteries of Eleusis
When Carl Jung and Carl Kerenyi got together to collaborate on this book, their aim was to elevate the study of mythology to a science.
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The Trickster: A Study in American Indian Mythology
Anthropological and psychological analysis by Radin Kereny and Jung of the voraciously uninhibited episodes of the Winnebego Trickster cycle.
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Prometheus: Archetypal Image of Human Existence
Carl Kerényi examines the story of Prometheus and the very process of mythmaking as a reflection of the archetypal function and seeks to discover how this primitive tale was invested with a universal fatality, first in the Greek ...
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Dionysos: Archetypal Image of Indestructible Life
No other god of the Greeks is as widely present in the monuments and nature of Greece and Italy, in the sensuous tradition of antiquity, as Dionysos. In myth and...
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Dionysos; Archetypal Image of the Indestructible Life
In this work, the noted mythologist and historian of religion Carl Kerényi presents a historical account of the religion of Dionysos from its beginnings in the Minoan culture down to its transition to a cosmic and cosmopolitan religion of ...
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Athene: Virgin and Mother : a Study of Pallas Athene
"The author's careful rendering of the many aspects of Athene's myth demonstrates a profound understanding of feminine intelligence both in its fierceness and its darker animal nature - especially apparent...
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En el laberinto
En los ensayos aquí reunidos, inéditos en España, Karl Kerényi ilustra los múltiples aspectos (simbólicos, iconográficos, literarios, míticos, rituales) a través de los cuales toma cuerpo ;ya sea en las culturas prehistóricas como ...
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Dionysos
In this work, the noted mythologist and historian of religion Carl Kerényi presents a historical account of the religion of Dionysos from its beginnings in the Minoan culture down to its transition to a cosmic and cosmopolitan religion of ...