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A philosophy of political myth /
In this book, originally published in 2007, Chiara Bottici argues for a philosophical understanding of political myth. Bottici demonstrates that myth is a process, one of continuous work on a basic narrative pattern that responds to a need for significance. Human beings need meaning in order to mast...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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New York :
Cambridge University Press,
2007.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Introduction
- Mythos and logos
- The biblos and the dialectic of the sacred logos
- Scientific rationality and the dialectic of the Enlightenment
- Myth and meaning
- Approaching myth
- Naming the unknown, grounding significance
- Myth and the critique of political reason
- Classical theories of political myth
- Political myth, ideology and utopia
- Myth, historical narratives and the social imaginary
- Myth and identity
- Political myths today : the extraordinary and the banal.