| Description |
xii, 303 pages : frontispiece (portrait) ; 24 cm |
| Note |
Edited by Charles W. Hendel. cf. Foreword. |
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"Published on the Louis Stern memorial fund." |
| Bibliography |
Bibliographical foot-notes. |
| Contents |
pt. 1. What is myth?: Structure of mythical thought -- Myth and language -- Myth and the psychology of emotions -- Function of myth in man's social life -- pt. 2. Struggle against myth in the history of political theory: "Logos" and "mythos" in early Greek philosophy -- Plato's Republic -- Religious and metaphysical background of the medieval theory of the state -- Theory of the legal state in medieval philosophy -- Nature and grace in medieval philosophy -- Machiavelli's new science of politics -- Triumph of Machiavellism and its consequences -- Implications of the new theory of the state -- Renaissance of stoicism and "natural right" theories of the state -- Philosophy of the Enlightenment and its romantic critics -- pt. 3. Myth of the twentieth century: Preparation: Carlyle -- From hero worship to race worship -- Hegel -- Technique of the modern political myths. |
| Subject |
State, The.
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State, The. |
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Political science.
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Political science. |
| Genre/Form |
Myths.
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Myths.
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| Added Author |
Hendel, Charles William, 1890-1982.
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