Mythology, Polytheism, and the Uncanny
摘要
The sublime and sublimation are always haunted and made possible by their other of slime and the uncanny, the combination of fascination and horror. The uncanny is associated with the obverse of the sublime. This chapter traces the uncanny from the work of Schelling that comes out of his philosophy of polytheismpolytheism and mythologymythology, the bases for monotheismmonotheism and theology. At a time and for a world in which some sectors of the monotheistic religions are in aggressive, and sometimes violent, contention against those of other monotheistic religions, and even against other sectors within their own monotheistic religion, Schelling’s discussion of the uncanny enables rethinking the relationship between mythology, and monotheistic and polytheistic religions in a culturally and politically liberatory and progressive way in the Anthropobscene. This chapter makes a plea for polytheism in a world and age riven by conflicts between and within monotheistic religions. Polytheism is living with nature in the earthly household of the ecosphere. The uncanny is the means to do it. It taps into a timely and rich vein of thinking about the divine, darkness, light, auraaura, religion, mythology, and the monstrous that enables rethinking the inter-relationship between all of them in environmentally and animal friendly terms.