Template:Did you know nominations/In Praise of Polytheism

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The result was: promoted by Yoninah (talk) 16:15, 14 October 2020 (UTC)

In Praise of Polytheism

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• ... that the essay "In Praise of Polytheism" dismisses all similarities between Enlightenment philosophy and striptease? Source: Marquard, Odo (1989). "In Praise of Polytheism (On Monomythical and Polymythical Thinking)". Farewell to Matters of Principle: Philosophical Studies. Translated by Wallace, Robert M. New York and Oxford: Oxford University Press. p. 91. ISBN 0-19-505114-9. Mythonudism strives for something impossible; because, it seems to me, every demythologization is a well compensated process: the more myths one takes off, the more myths stay on. That is why I have doubts about the striptease: doubts (to put it more precisely) about the idea of the enlightenment (late in world history) as a striptease operating with myths. This idea, I said, is itself a myth; so it is time to find a countermyth to it. - this particular page isn't part of the Google Books preview, but web searches for parts of the quote will yield some snippets from a Scribd.com upload. Of course, there is also piracy.
  • ALT1:... that a modern Gnostic disapproved of the essay "In Praise of Polytheism" because he thought it repeated the apostasy of the Roman emperor Julian? Source: Taubes 1983, p. 464, quoted in Gladigow (2001, p. 146) (accusation, in German: "Die Rekurse auf Mythos post Christum sind in Wahrheit nur Wiederholungen der Apostasie Julians") & Styfhals 2019, p. 264 (Taubes as a modern Gnostic; also p. 2: "...Taubes, as a modern Gnostic...")

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Improved to Good Article status by Ffranc (talk). Self-nominated at 09:04, 4 October 2020 (UTC).

• General: Article is new enough and long enough
  New enough: Long enough:

Policy: Article is sourced, neutral, and free of copyright problems
Adequate sourcing: Neutral: Free of copyright violations, plagiarism, and close paraphrasing:

Hook: Hook has been verified by provided inline citation
Cited: - Offline/paywalled citation accepted in good faith Interesting:

QPQ: Done.

Overall: Everything looks good. If you want, you could link striptease and Enlightenment philosophy, but it's definitely optional. I prefer ALT0 because stripping is more interesting than ancient Rome in my opinion.  Bait30  ^{Talk 2 me pls?} 04:20, 5 October 2020 (UTC)