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Cassirer Ernst

The myth of the state - Oxford Oxford University Press 1946 - 303p

Contents:
pt. 1. What is myth?: The structure of mythical thought ;
Myth and language ;
Myth and the psychology of emotions;
The function of myth in man's social life;
pt. 2. The struggle against myth in the history of political theory: "Logos" and "mythos" in early Greek philosophy;
Plato's Republic;
The religious and metaphysical background of the medieval theory of the state;
The theory of the legal state in medieval philosophy;
Nature and grace in medieval philosophy;
Machiavelli's new science of politics;
The triumph of Machiavellism and its consequences;
Implications of the new theory of the state;
The Renaissance of stoicism and "natural right" theories of the state;
The philosophy of the Enlightenment and its romantic critics;
pt. 3. The myth of the twentieth century: The preparation: Carlyle;
From hero worship to race worship;
Hegel ;
The technique of the modern political myths

ISBN: 978-0300000368

Subjects--Topical Terms:
1. State - Political Science2. Mythology

Dewey Class. No.: 320.100000 / CAS