论当代神话及其存在类型

Modern Myth and Its Types of Presence

"神话"并不因为社会进步和科技发展而终结,它只是改变了传统神话的存在形式,由此合乎历史与逻辑地构成"当代神话"的存在模式。当代社会必然性地存在着神话思维和神话样式,当代神话只不过是当代创造主体依据自我的目的与动机进行精心编造的结果,并带有工业社会和文化产业的审美特性。当代神话的主要存在类型为科技神话、国家神话、民族神话、英雄神话、政治神话、消费神话等。当代神话也在一定程度上影响着社会意识形态和文艺生产。

Myth is still alive in modern society and even in post-modern society,but its mode of existence,constructed as contemporary myth,is different from that of the traditional myths.Contemporary society also has its mythical thinking and mythological patterns.Contemporary myth is the contemporary creation responding to the creator'purpose and motivation,and it embodies the aesthetic characteristics of industrial society and cultural industry.The existence types of contemporary myth include the myth of science,myth of nation,myth of ethnic group,myth of heroes,myth of politics,and myth of consumption.To some extent,social ideology and literary production are also influenced by contemporary mythology.