As importantly, however, Bunkse realizes that his conception of Latvia has been based on isolated idealized and mythologized images of Latvian culture, landscape and national character that eventually fall short of constituting home for him, even after partially successful process of
demythologization of Latvia and Latvians.
When mythological understandings within the framework of a society are seriously re-considered in order to recognize the deeper layers of socio-cultural-political significance that lead to their formation,
demythologization certainly becomes a deconstructive process.
In theology, the hermeneutics of sacred texts is not only
demythologization of the Scriptures or reaffirmation of the faith.
Chapter 5: "Pavese, Leuco, e il modernismo," offers an insightful overview of the complexities surrounding Italian modernism before proposing a modernist profile of Pavese, which finds an eloquent expression in the Dialoghi through its author's rewriting of myth within the context of the
demythologization of the early Novecento.
While Peterson himself provides evolutionary explanations for human religious traditions, there is no spirit of condescension, debunking, or
demythologization.
Bearing in mind the positive Jewish image of Chinese society, one can say that
demythologization is aimed at here.
In the 19th Century, as 'form' becomes more and more definitive of human art and technology, the stage is set for Nietzsche's declaration that "God is dead." Also, with the
demythologization of Sisyphus' plight, the endless effort at 'laborious forming ' is replaced by the concept of 'form as work'--that is, modernism can be defined as the celebration of the formal production of a work (of Art or of Technological Science).
I would like to conclude by proposing an invitation to an effort, nothing new, perhaps similar to what Rudolf Bultmann called "
demythologization." Provoked then by black theology, I am inspired to demythologize the many myths that we have and that we construct in a society of "colonial functioning," those centralizing, totalitarian, hegemonic thoughts, that guide our daily life.
In crafting the Ballad, Chesterton aimed to foster a renaissance of legend in an age given to
demythologization, and the response of the critical establishment shows that this provocative bolt found its target.
Such would seem to be the necessary consequence of the apparent progress of Milesian philosophy's
demythologization of prephilosophical theogonies like Hesiod's.
However, this study shows that for some consumers certain myths do not allow for practices of
demythologization described by Arsel and Thompson (2011).