Reason & Society

In his early science fiction of the 1960s, Samuel R. Delany incorporated myth into his quest scenarios, in a highly unconventional manner...

In line with an ongoing project, I finally put together a working though obviously non-comprehensive bibliography on unusual treatments of t...

I probably first read Erich Fromm's distinctive analysis of the Biblical myth of Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden in his most importan...

The Biblical myth begins where the Babylonian myth has ended. The supremacy of a male god is established and hardly any trace of a previous ...

The following was written August 11, 2012: Fromm was one of my teenage heroes, beginning with Escape From Freedom , which I read and mark...

This is of course a huge topic, but I recently stumbled across a mock-nostalgia page on the Soviet Union, with particular mock-nostalgia for...

Here is a 4-minute video by philosopher and social theorist Nina Power : Radical thinkers: Ludwig Feuerbach on religion - video This i...