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The myth of the state /

Основен автор: Cassirer, Ernst, 1874-1945.
Други автори: Hendel, Charles William, 1890- (ed.)
Формат: Книга
Език: English
Публикувано: New Haven, London, Yale University Press; G. Cumberlege, Oxford University Press, 1950, c1946.
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Съдържание:
  • 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.