Mito e filosofia: Sentido, trajetória e controvérsias

Abstract

This thematic monograph aims to present a series of possible interpretations regarding myth. Its central axis is the relationship between myth and philosophy and shows that the relationships between the two are not exclusively antinomic, but that their projects can be compatible. A series of references are used here that span philosophy, ethnology and mythology, where the theme of myth appears related to processes of ordering and disordering the world – cosmos and chaos. Initially, Mircea Eliade, Werner Jaeger and Jean-Pierre Vernant are used to analyze the main characteristics of myth and the transition from mythos to logos in the Hellenic context. Then, authors such as Claude Lévi-Strauss and Paul Ricoeur are used, each with their own differentiated interpretation that ranges from structuralism to a metaphorical-hermeneutic interpretation, and also myth as a possible primordial science in Eric Weil's category-attitude of certainty. Finally, the myth is analyzed through the authors Deleuze and Guatarri, who present a proposal about the myth as a chaosmos necessary for an order to exist