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Is the Golden Bough (by J. Frazer) worth reading? Does it still offer fresh insights in 2019, or am I simply better of reading more contemporary works?

And as a follow-up, how good is this abridged edition?

>> No.14133560

>>14133501
Yes, it is still necessary reading for anyone who wants insight into mythology. It has fallen out of favor with the modern academics who lean towards empiricists bullshit. The abridged edition is all you need.

>> No.14133649

>>14133560
Cheers anon

>> No.14133672

Isn’t the full version like 12 volumes long or something? I’d say abridged is a safe start.

Also as someone has pointed out, academically this book is considered dated now by some, but what’s interesting about it is that it was really popular, and influential on a lot of literature. So if you like reading books that were historically significant it’s a good piece of 20th century culture

>> No.14133985

>>14133501
Read what Wittgenstein had to say about it.

>> No.14134001

>>14133501
Kubrick rec'd it to an executive and the exec replied "Stanley, I don't have time to read mythology" and Kubrick replied "This isn't about mythology, John. It's about your life."

>> No.14134138

>>14133501
No, cultural anthropology and comparative mythology are structuralist horseshit that should be treated in fiction AT BEST.

>> No.14135430

>>14134138
Derp

>> No.14135474

>>14134138
>he reads for facts
Never go full reddit.

>> No.14135500

>>14135474
Puh-lease, and what do you read for, oh wise mister? Religious knowledge? LOL

>> No.14135524

How much does Campbell's Masks of God series overlap with this book? Would it be redundant to read both?

>> No.14136150

>>14135524
also interested in this

>> No.14136206

>>14133672
>Isn’t the full version like 12 volumes long or something?

Oh yeah.

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>>14133560
>Yes, it is still necessary reading for anyone who wants insight into mythology. It has fallen out of favor with the modern academics who lean towards empiricists bullshit. The abridged edition is all you need.

>> No.14136244

>>14135500
are you the gaythiest from the other threads? cringe

>> No.14136261
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>Paglia ransacked Yale’s Sterling Memorial Library looking for different approaches to literature. She read Emile Durkheim, Max Weber, Erich Neumann, and Carl Jung, but the scholar who floored her was Sir James George Frazer. His seminal work The Golden Bough was a synthesis of myth. “My largest ambition,” Paglia writes in her preface to Sexual Personae, is “to fuse Frazer with Freud.”

Deal with it

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>>14136236

>> No.14136651

>>14136261
Yikes.

>> No.14137600

>>14136261
Everything Paglia is so cringy

>> No.14137661

>>14137600

It's the autism.

>> No.14138325

>>14135524
Me too.

>> No.14138335

>>14136261
Paglia is a major midwit but her enthusiasm and manner are so endearing I root for her anyway

>> No.14138724

>>14134138
>structuralist horseshit
lmaooo