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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...

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Published in:Philosophy & Rhetoric Vol. 34; no. 4; pp. 267 - 297
Main Author: Hariman, Robert
Format: Article
Published: Pennsylvania State University Press 2002
Subjects:
Allegory
Literary form
Personification in literature
Mythology
Demythologization (Religion)
Sociology
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