Abstract

ALBIZU, Edgardo. The Eternal Return of Myth: Prolegomena to a Transpeculative Philosophy of Myth. arete [online]. 2009, vol.21, n.2, pp.329-352. ISSN 1016-913X.

In this paper, myth is presented as an a priori system of conscience in so much as it is defined by significance. First, the ripening of the mythic conscience in the logos system is shown, until arriving to Shelling’s late philosophy of mythology. Then, two posterior lines of thought are presented: 1) historic-phenomenological (for example, Kerényi); 2) ontologic-existential (for example, Gusdorf). At last, the author delivers his theory on myth as a permutating system of religion and science, dialectically unified with their counterpole: language. The paper reaches, thus, its synthesis in the formula: myth becoming-language and language becoming-myth.

Keywords : myth; significance; language; conscience; time.

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