Allegory and Democratic Public Culture in the Postmodern Era.
The article informs that allegory arises when Greek rationality overpowers archaic myth, when Christendom engulfs pagan culture, when early modern thought displaces Christian hegemony, when modernization destroys traditional social order, when late-modern technocracy colonizes the life world. This h...
| Published in: | Philosophy & Rhetoric Vol. 34; no. 4; pp. 267 - 297 |
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Pennsylvania State University Press
2002
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