{"id":252,"date":"2022-01-09T01:52:14","date_gmt":"2022-01-09T06:52:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.harvard.edu\/kleelerner\/?p=252"},"modified":"2022-01-14T10:58:44","modified_gmt":"2022-01-14T15:58:44","slug":"myths-have-their-reasons-isaac-ariail-reed-the-hedgehog-review","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/kleelerner\/myths-have-their-reasons-isaac-ariail-reed-the-hedgehog-review\/","title":{"rendered":"Myths Have Their Reasons. Isaac Ariail Reed, The Hedgehog Review"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"kvgmc6g5 cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x c1et5uql ii04i59q\">\n<div dir=\"auto\">Recommended Reading: Myths Have Their Reasons.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">Exploring myth as background and subject matter for politics.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x c1et5uql o9v6fnle ii04i59q\">\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">&#8220;There\u2019s a certain account of modern society that goes something like this. Once upon a time, primitive peoples believed in myths about gods, goddesses, and supernatural events. Pre-modern folk told and re-told these fantastic tales because such stories made sense of their world and they were useful for binding people together for common action. But eventually, at least by the time of the Enlightenment, we grew up and no longer needed these myths. We exchanged obsolete and now embarrassing traditions for science and public reason.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x c1et5uql o9v6fnle ii04i59q\">\n<div dir=\"auto\">This extremely popular account of modernity, of course, is deeply flawed in a number of important ways. As Isaac Ariail Reed, professor of sociology at UVA and senior fellow at the Institute, points out in his review of Tae-Yeoun Keum\u2019s new book Plato and the Mythic Tradition in Political Thought, modern political thinking is rife with myth.&#8221; \u2014 The Hedgehog Review<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">===<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">Read &#8216;Myths Have Their Reasons&#8217;\u00a0at: \u00a0<a class=\"oajrlxb2 g5ia77u1 qu0x051f esr5mh6w e9989ue4 r7d6kgcz rq0escxv nhd2j8a9 nc684nl6 p7hjln8o kvgmc6g5 cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x jb3vyjys rz4wbd8a qt6c0cv9 a8nywdso i1ao9s8h esuyzwwr f1sip0of lzcic4wl gpro0wi8 py34i1dx\" role=\"link\" href=\"https:\/\/hedgehogreview.com\/issues\/authenticity\/articles\/myths-have-their-reasons?fbclid=IwAR1sbDtoYdUmIyyrUp_wVwcvt6ZJjfaMCVU6NJ-VlSLg4QTxbvp0KbZe1E8\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">https:\/\/hedgehogreview.com\/&#8230;\/myths-have-their-reasons<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Recommended Reading: Myths Have Their Reasons. Exploring myth as background and subject matter for politics. &#8220;There\u2019s a certain account of modern society that goes something like this. Once upon a time, primitive peoples believed in myths about gods, goddesses, and supernatural events. Pre-modern folk told and re-told these fantastic tales because such stories made sense [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9949,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[297806],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-252","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-taking-bearings-column"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/kleelerner\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/252","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/kleelerner\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/kleelerner\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/kleelerner\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9949"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/kleelerner\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=252"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/kleelerner\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/252\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":253,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/kleelerner\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/252\/revisions\/253"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/kleelerner\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=252"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/kleelerner\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=252"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/kleelerner\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=252"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}