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Cassirer, Ernst

The myth of the state/ Ernst Cassirer - New Haven: Yale University Press, 1974. - xii, 303 p. ; 21 cm.

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: 9780300000368

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Mythology
Political science--Philosophy
Political science

Dewey Class. No.: 320 / CAS/T