Evgeny Nechkasov’s book Towards Another Myth focuses on three key themes: how sacred language and speech create the worlds of myths; the problematic instance of the Nothing that regularly escapes metaphysics; and a frontal comparison of the philosophical and ontological programs of Traditionalism and Martin Heidegger.
A closely intertwined consideration of these topics, — involving the hermeneutics of Germanic, Greek, and Indian mythologies, ancient mythopoetics, and modern poetry, — closes in on the need for Another Myth for dwelling in the world in the era of radical Divine-forsakenness.
Significant help in this pursuit can be found in Martin Heidegger’s fundamental ontology and philosophy of Another Beginning. The book presents a parallel comparison of this German thinker’s ideas with the philosophy of Traditionalism, and shows the significant differences between these two systems and their mutual critiques of one another.
Nevertheless, building a bridge between these two most important philosophies of the West is fundamentally possible. The question remains: Will this bridge connect both shores of the river, or only transport thinkers from one to the other?
This book is structured in such a way that it is recommended to read it twice immediately after the first reading.
This work is recommended for a wide range of readers, religious scholars, and intellectuals interested in mythology, metaphysics, philosophy, linguistics, and ontology.
