TY - JOUR AB - <p>When Marcel Detienne in l'Invention de la mythology (1981) convincingly<br>argued that the concept of myth is no more than a modern semantic construction,<br>to which no real genre corresponds, he dealt the fatal blow to the<br>already languishing structuralistic myth research. Since then, the mythological<br>field of study has not recovered; it seems nor to have been able to adapt to<br>the paradigmatic shift to poststructuralism. Yet, the work of the philosopher<br>and philologist Hans Blumenberg might provide us with such a poststructuralist<br>alternative. In Work on myth (1979) he develops a new and non-essentialist<br>approach to myth. By means of the limit concept "absolutism of reality"<br>he presents myth not as a product, buc as a process. This article aims to<br>introduce Blumenbergs thinking, to situate him in the recent impasse of myth<br>research and to demonstrate how his alternative methodology allows a way<br>out of it.</p> AU - Nadia Sels DA - 2007/1// DO - 10.21825/kzm.v61i0.17429 IS - 0 VL - 61 PB - Koninklijke Zuid-Nederlandse Maatschappij voor Taal- en Letterkunde en Geschiedenis PY - 2007 TI - Waarom de mythe geen antwoorden geeft: Hans Blumenbergs alternatieve benadering van het mytheonderzoek T2 - Handelingen - Koninklijke Zuid-Nederlandse maatschappij voor taal- en letterkunde en geschiedenis UR - https://openjournals.ugent.be/kzm/article/id/72115/ ER -