TY  - BOOK
AU  - Cassirer, Ernst
TI  - The myth of the state
SN  - 9780300000368
U1  - 320 
PY  - 1974///
CY  - New Haven
PB  - Yale University Press
KW  - Mythology
KW  - Political science--Philosophy
KW  - Political science
N1  - 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
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