{"id":381982,"date":"2024-04-25T14:18:12","date_gmt":"2024-04-25T18:18:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.yorku.ca\/laps\/phil\/?p=363977"},"modified":"2024-04-25T14:18:12","modified_gmt":"2024-04-25T18:18:12","slug":"making-sense-of-myth-conversations-with-luc-brisson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.yorku.ca\/laps\/newsroom\/2024\/04\/25\/making-sense-of-myth-conversations-with-luc-brisson\/","title":{"rendered":"Making Sense of Myth: Conversations with Luc Brisson"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-9d6595d7 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:66.66%\">\n<p>Gerard Naddaf, Professor Emeritus of 快播视频\u2019s Department of Philosophy, has published a new book with McGill-Queen\u2019s University Press that explores the importance of myths as creators of selfhood and group identity throughout history.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>To most, myths are merely fantastic stories. But for Luc Brisson,&nbsp;one of the great living Plato scholars and prominent philosophers of his generation, myth is a key factor in what it means to be human \u2013 a condition of life for all.&nbsp;Essential and inescapable, myth offers a guide for living, one that illuminates our need for belonging and group identity.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In these free-flowing conversations, Brisson provides a lucid historical analysis of why the history of his native Quebec is inseparable from that of the Catholic Church in Quebec society, and the links he draws here provide a perfect paradigm of myth and mythmaking. Ultimately, Brisson seeks to explain how his work on myth corresponds with his own biographical path, which, as he shows in these conversations, was itself rooted in Catholic and Quebecois myth. But we soon see that his theory of myth and its practical application is relevant to all people, regardless of one\u2019s particular background.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Brisson begins these conversations with an overview of his genealogy before turning to the&nbsp;story of his escape from an all-encompassing myth promulgated by the Roman Catholic Church&nbsp;of his youth. The myth(s) that made Brisson who he is are thus front and centre here. We learn of his recruitment by a Catholic seminary as a gifted (but handicapped) child from a modest rural Quebec family at age eleven, the emotional and intellectual awakening he subsequently underwent, and his own \u201cnoble lie,\u201d which allowed him to get an education that he would not have otherwise received. There is something for everyone here, but the book offers first and foremost a philosophy of myth that doubles as a philosophy of life.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The earlier conversations originally recorded in French (with Louis-Andr\u00e9 Dorion) contain some of the most insightful ideas on the origin of bisexuality. There\u2019s also ample coverage of Brisson\u2019s Orphic research, and a rich discussion of why the big bang is still a myth on a par with Plato\u2019s&nbsp;<em>Timaeus<\/em>. Brisson\u2019s world travels, his decades living in Paris, and his deep immersion in Quebec culture and politics also&nbsp;occupy a prominent place&nbsp;here, but always in the background is Brisson\u2019s attention to myth and, by extension, politics.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:33.33%\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.yorku.ca\/laps\/newsroom\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/955\/2024\/04\/9780228020714-1.jpg\" alt=\"Cover of the book Making Sense of Myth: Conversations with Luc Brisson\" class=\"wp-image-363982\" width=\"400\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.yorku.ca\/laps\/newsroom\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/955\/2024\/04\/9780228020714-1.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.yorku.ca\/laps\/newsroom\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/955\/2024\/04\/9780228020714-1-267x400.jpg 267w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>In later conversations (part 4), Brisson offers insightful observations on a wealth of topics, including what he sees as the illusory nature of originality; the constraints of the publish-or-perish phenomenon in academia; his experience working in teams; his and others\u2019 interpretations of Plato; the differences between Greek and Abrahamic religions; the place of myth in the modern world; and his theory for why reason will&nbsp;<em>always<\/em>&nbsp;be tied to myth \u2013 to mention but a handful of the themes touched on here.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It\u2019s the final section of part&nbsp;4 that brings together the whole. Myth, as Brisson understands it, comprises stories that give us our identity; they offer us a way of&nbsp;<em>unconsciously<\/em>&nbsp;(until Plato, that is) controlling the individual within the community to which he or she belongs. As such, myths are creators of the self, of one\u2019s identity. The notion of individuality is a kind of mirage, then; it\u2019s as if there is no self independent of one\u2019s larger group or community. For Brisson, myth is a phenomenon that few have given any real thought to, and yet it\u2019s a key to understanding what it means to be human, and to the future destiny of humanity itself.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This book is meant to appeal to an intellectually curious English-reading public (and not just scholars and philosophers). To this end, the text is interspersed with over three hundred notes adding necessary context. Naddaf also provides an introduction and an afterword. The former puts Plato and myth into context, giving readers a sense of what to expect in the conversations; while in the latter, he describes the role of myth in anthropogeny (from the origins of language), in the evolution of the self and of consciousness (culminating in the creation of the Western mind), and in multiculturalism. However, while the book offers copious historical analysis, he also engages throughout with the role of myth in the current political and social climate, including its place in contemporary world events.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Gerard Naddaf is&nbsp;Professor Emeritus and Senior Scholar in the Department of Philosophy at 快播视频's Faculty of Liberal Arts &amp; Professional Studies. He is a specialist in ancient Greek philosophy, particularly of the origins of philosophy and science, the Presocratics, and Plato. His most recent work focuses on the role of myth (and consciousness) in the evolution of the self, as well as how inspiration influences human creativity. His work has been cited more than a thousand times by scholars in a range of fields and has garnered tens of thousands of views from readers in over 160 countries on online platforms like&nbsp;Academia.edu&nbsp;and Google Scholar. This is exactly the type of broad audience that his latest book,&nbsp;<em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mqup.ca\/making-sense-of-myth-products-9780228020714.php\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Making Sense of Myth: Conversations with Luc Brisson<\/a>&nbsp;<\/em>(McGill-Queen's University Press),is directed at.&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gerard Naddaf, Professor Emeritus of 快播视频\u2019s Department of Philosophy, has published a new book with McGill-Queen\u2019s University Press that explores the importance of myths as creators of selfhood and group identity throughout history. To most, myths are merely fantastic stories. 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