A Philosophy of Political Myth

Index

Abbagnano, N., 25, 36, 42, 52, 64, 70

Abrahamian, E., 249

Adorno, F., 25, 36

Adorno, T. W., 67, 69, 70

aletheia, 11, 39, 40–3, 48

Anaximander, 21, 22, 26

Anaximenes, 21, 22, 26

Anderson, B., 241

Angehrn, E., 122

Ankersmit, F. R., 217

anthropology, 2, 83, 85, 98, 116–22, 119, 155, 213

   interpretative, 130 (see also Geertz)

   philosophical, 119–21 (see also Gehlen)

   structural, 103–4 (see also Lévi-Strauss)

Aquinas, T., 53–4

Arendt, H., 164

Aristotle, 11, 21, 26–8, 30, 34–40, 42, 54, 70, 123, 170

Arnason, J. P., 72, 79, 223–4, 241

Aron, R., 186–8

Aronsson, K., 240

Assmann, J., 48

Audi, R., 41

Auerbach, E., 39, 56–8

Augustine, Saint, 52

Bacon, F., 67, 117

Balibar, E., 164

Bartlett, R. C., 136

Barthes, R., 112, 114, 203–7

Bayle, P., 62–3, 66, 76, 133–5

Bell, D., 186

Bennett, W., 218, 253–6

Bilgrami, A., 237

Bloch, M., 2

Blumenberg, H., 7, 8, 12–13, 47, 50, 68–9, 77, 82, 108, 112, 114–20, 122–4, 126–7, 132–3, 176–8, 181, 220

Bohrer, K. H., 100

Bottici, C., 146–7, 238, 245, 249–51, 257

Boudon, R., 195–6

Bouveresse, J., 85

Brandwood, L., 32

Braudel, F., 204

Bremner, C., 250

Burnet, J., 22

Bultmann, R., 59–60

Callimachus, 44

Campanella, T., 198

Cantelli, G., 110

Cassirer, E., 4, 7, 13, 62, 101, 107–10, 116, 126, 129, 133, 136–7, 150–9, 161, 173, 176–8, 182–3, 187, 247–8, 259

Castoriadis, C., 15, 24, 50, 53, 72–3, 122, 176, 198–9, 201, 220–6, 241, 258

Cavell, S., 96

Cazes, B., 197

Cerutti, F., 236, 242

Challand, B., 245, 249–51, 257

Chantraine, P., 20–1

Churchill, J., 96

Clack, B. R., 85, 92, 97

Cohan, S., 112

Cohen, A. P., 3, 4, 219

Cohn, N., 5

Cole, T., 40

Colli, G., 26, 28, 35

Cornford, F. M., 23, 32

Cosmas Indicopleustes, 54

Coulter, J., 94–5

Courtine, J-F., 42, 52–3

Croce, B., 163

Dante, 57–8, 128

Das, V., 85

Delatte, L., 37

Deleuze, G., 17

Denooz, J., 37

Derrida, J., 208

Descartes, R., 41, 53, 64–5, 108, 167

Detienne, M., 40

demythologisation, 59–60

Dierse, U., 188

Dubois, M., 188, 192

Duhem, P., 54

Durkheim, E., 2, 164

Eagleton, T., 188

Edelmann, M., 219, 253, 255

Eliade, M., 128–9

Engels, F., 188–90, 229

Finnegan, R., 32

Fisch, J., 22

Flood, C. G., 8, 9, 82, 179, 181, 183, 186, 194–5, 218, 256

Foucault, M., 203, 240

Frank, M., 77, 123

Frazer, J. G., 9, 82–6

Freeden, M., 188, 192–3

Freeman, K., 22

Freud, S., 101–2, 104, 141, 194, 240

Friedman, J., 204, 213–15

Friese, H., 27, 73, 223, 236

Gadamer, H. G., 48, 73, 114

Galilei, G., 65–8, 73–4, 76

Geertz, C., 2, 3, 4, 56, 104, 124, 130, 190, 194–5, 219, 246

Gehlen, A., 13, 119, 121, 195

Geiser, K., 32

Geisser, V., 252

Gliozzi, G., 141

Goody, J., 32

Gramsci, A., 163, 181

Habermas, J., 18, 164, 222, 244

Halliday, F., 251

Havelock, E. A., 32

Hegel, G. W. F., 31–3, 49, 75–7, 199, 212, 238

Heidegger, M., 39, 40, 121

Henry, B., 100, 11, 155

Heraklitus, 45

Herodotus, 28

Hesiod, 2, 3, 28–9, 33–4, 40, 46, 51

Hick, J., 67

Hippler, T., 166–8

history, 11, 37, 46–7, 132, 159, 182, 185, 189, 200, 203–26, 230, 260

   holy, 11, 46–7

   myth and, 37, 203–26, 260

   sacred, 46–52, 137

Hobbes, T., 117, 138–43, 147–8

Hobsbawm, E. J., 3, 5, 235

Hölderlin, F., 75–6, 78

Horkheimer, M., 11, 18

Hoffmann, F., 52, 64

Homer, 20, 29, 33, 58, 81, 127–8

Honneth, A., 238

Hübner, K., 78

Hume, D., 70–1, 124

Huntington, S. P., 244–5, 248–50, 256

Husserl, E., 25–7, 105

identity, 3, 15, 22, 25, 97, 148, 164, 202, 213–14, 223, 227–45

   antinomies of, 231, 234, 236, 240, 245

   cultural and political, 15, 202, 213–14, 227–45

   logics of, 223

   politics of, 204, 214, 234, 237

ideology, 8, 15, 186–200

   definition of, 186–200 (see also Aron; Engels; Flood; Mannheim; Marx)

   and history, 206–8

   and myth, 8, 15, 133, 186–200

   and utopia, 133, 186–200

imagination, 12, 14, 71–3, 77, 156–7, 164–76, 197, 220–6, 241, 248, 258

   see also Castoriadis; Kant; Spinoza

imaginary, social, 15, 53, 65, 79, 80, 176, 220–6, 241

   see also Arnason; Castoriadis

Iser, W., 114

Jamme, C., 18, 60, 100, 124

Jaspers, K., 60

Jenkins, K., 203

Jost, J. T., 92

Joyce, J., 128

Jung, C. G., 102

Kant, I., 52, 64, 69, 72, 74, 79, 146, 148–9, 155, 198

Kantorowicz, E., 2

Kavka, G., 139

Kenny, A. J. P., 92

Kerényi, K., 13, 122–3

Kersting, W., 146

Kirk, G. S., 22, 28, 86

Koselleck, R., 236

Koyré, A., 69

Krämer, H. J., 32

Krois, J. M., 152–7

Labov, W., 112

La Caze, M., 139

Landucci, S., 141–2, 148

Lang, B., 165

Larzilliére, P., 253

Leghissa, G., 7, 127

Le Goff, J., 141

Lévi-Strauss, C., 103–4, 209

Lincoln, B., 8, 9, 82, 179–80, 193, 157

Locke, J., 66–7, 91, 140, 191

logos, 10, 11, 12, 20–43

   sacred, 11, 18, 44–61, 126, 131 (see also religion, of the Book)

   scientific, 11, 18, 62–81

Lotito, L., 77

Luther, Martin, 59

Macpherson, C. B., 142

Maffey, A., 197–8

Malinowski, B., 2, 122, 126, 130

Mannheim, K., 188, 192–3, 197, 226

Marconi, D., 86

Marcuse, H., 87, 198

Marquard, O., 50, 77

Martin, R. P., 20

Marx, K., 160, 162, 186–93, 229

McCormick, J. P., 228

Mead, G. H., 238

Melucci, A., 236, 239

Messeri, M., 43

Midgley, M., 112, 139, 247

Moeller, J., 255

Moneti, M., 198

Moore, S. F., 129, 257

More, T., 197–8

Moravcsik, J., 41

Moreau, P. F., 164

Morgan, D., 249

Morgan, K., 28–9

myth

   definition of, 4, 10, 99, 115, 207

   historical, 183, 259 (see also history, myth and)

   political (see political myth)

   reality of, 12, 44–62, 104–5

   religious, 44–61, 259 (see also religion, and political myth)

   and ritual (see ritual)

   scientific, 259

   truth of, 77, 44–61, 83 ff, 110

   work on, 7, 8, 12, 15, 82, 99, 130, 133, 143, 145, 149, 158, 179, 181, 200, 216–19, 225, 242, 244, 247, 256, 257–8

mythos, 10, 18, 20–44, 81, 208

mythosdebatte, 8

   see also Blumenberg

Nestlé, W., 22

Neumann, K., 41, 64

Nietzsche, F., 10, 17, 81, 121, 128, 195, 228

Norris, C., 166

Nussbaum, M., 126–7

ousia, 25

Pagden, A., 141–2, 148

Paggi, L., 183

Panikkar, R., 60–1

Passerini, L., 111

Pavone, C., 183

Pellegrin, P., 36

Pieper, J., 31, 33

Patai, R., 251

Pipes, D., 251

Pirandello, L., 205

Pizzorno, A., 237–9

Plato, 10, 21, 26, 28–35, 39–42, 67

Plutarch, 62

political myth, 3–4, 8–9, 130, 134–50, 151–76, 177–85, 210, 213–16, 224–6, 228, 231, 243–4, 246–60

   classical theories of, 151–77

   contemporary, 183, 202, 246–60

   definition of, 3–9, 179–85

   see also Cassirer; Flood; Lincoln; myth; politics; Sorel; Spinoza; Tudor

politics, 1, 131–3, 151, 154, 159, 170, 177, 180, 246

   definition of, 180

   of identity, 204, 214, 234, 237 (see also identity)

   and media, 246–60

   modern, 3, 131–4, 154, 170, 246–60

   of the past, 203, 226

   and Romanticism, 75–80

Poser, H., 100

Preus, S., 165–6, 170

psychoanalysis, 101–3, 220–4, 239–40

   and religion, 101

   see also Castoriadis; Freud; Jung; Ricoeur

Pulcini, E., 146

Ranger, T., 3, 235

rationality, 1, 18, 21, 25, 62–80, 104, 106, 108, 109, 116, 154, 162–3, 221, 228

   and model of society, 1

   see also logos; reason

Raven, J. E., 28

Rawls, J., 1, 6

Reale, G., 30, 32

realitas, 52, 55, 64

reality, 23, 28, 38–43, 52–3, 55, 63–4, 71, 102, 105, 186, 189–91, 157, 203, 206–7, 213, 223–4

   absolutism of, 119–22 (see also Blumenberg)

   effect, 206 (see also Barthes)

   of myth, 12, 44–62, 104

   see also ousia; realitas

reason, 12, 24, 57, 62–80, 110, 127, 133, 134–51, 159, 164, 169, 208, 230

   political, 134–51

   see also logos; rationality

religion, 2, 11, 44, 61–2, 83–4, 125–6, 134–7, 152, 158, 161, 165, 178, 197, 250

   of the Book, 11, 19, 44–61

   definition of, 125–6

   demythologisation of, 59–60

   and Enlightenment, 62, 134

   and myth, 2, 11, 44–61, 75–8, 84, 98, 101, 122, 125–6, 134–7, 152

   and political myth, 134–7, 158–61, 178, 197, 250, 259

   and Romanticism, 75–8

Ricoeur, P., 197, 226, 239

ritual, 6, 82, 85, 103, 129–30, 152, 155, 158, 173–4, 182–3, 257–8

Rorty, R., 94

Rosenberg, A., 153, 229, 259

Rosenthal, M., 168–9, 171, 175

Ross, W. D., 41

Rousseau, J. J., 13, 142–8, 155, 231–2, 238

Rundell, J., 72–3, 223

Russell, B., 87

Said, E., 251

Sadiki, L., 251

Scheler, M., 119

Schelling, F. W. J., 75–7

Scheman, N., 95

Schlegel, F. S., 201, 217

Schmitt, C., 15, 48–50, 202, 227–35, 242–3

Schonfield, M., 22, 28

Seib, P., 249

Shevory, T. C., 255, 258

Shils, E., 186

Shires, L., 112

Siegelman, L., 255

Smith, A. D., 5, 231, 234–5, 237, 245, 259

Socrates, 30, 33, 116, 233

Sorel, G., 7, 14, 133, 150, 159–64, 176, 178–9, 184–5, 187, 199, 226–8, 230, 243

Sparti, D., 238

Spinoza, B., 14, 53, 64, 133, 150, 164–178, 184, 199, 221, 253–4, 257, 259

Stoppino, M., 192

Stråth, B., 5, 183, 203, 215

symbol, 2, 4, 106, 120, 145, 194, 220–1, 235

   see also Cassirer; Castoriadis; Gehlen; Lévi-Strauss

Tacitus, 171

Taylor, C., 91, 94, 97, 146, 234, 236, 238

Tebben, J. R., 20

Tertullian, 56

Thales, 21, 22, 26–7

Thomas, R., 32

Thompson, J. B., 188, 192

Thorsen, A., 182

Tomashevski, B., 112–13

Toolan, M. J., 112

truth, 10, 39–40, 47–50, 65, 71, 76, 84, 110, 165, 203–4, 259

   claim to, 8, 10–11, 14, 18, 30, 48–50, 82, 100, 110, 131, 179

   of myth, 77, 44–61, 83, 110

   plurality of, 11, 21, 42, 43, 59

   revealed, 32, 48, 56

   see also aletheia

Tudor, H., 8, 129, 158–9, 164, 178–80, 182, 187, 193, 196, 217, 250

utopia, 15, 133, 160, 186

   definition of, 197–200

   and ideology, 133, 186–200

   and imagination, 198–200

   and laws of nature, 200

   and myth, 15, 133, 160, 186, 197–200

Vattimo, G., 73–4

Vernant, J. P., 22–5, 27, 32

Veyne, P., 39, 42

Vico, G., 108–11, 116, 166, 170

Vlastos, G., 41

Volkmann-Schluck, K. H., 77

von Savigny, E., 94, 95

Wagner, P., 27, 102, 230, 236, 240

Wallace, R., 118

Warrender, H., 142

Weber, M., 2, 3, 132, 164, 180

White, H., 113, 203, 205, 210, 211–12, 219, 260

Whitebook, J., 222

Wingo, A. H., 6

Wittgenstein, L., 9, 12, 80, 82, 84–97, 125, 130, 157, 166

Wolin, R., 233

Yanarella, E. J., 255

Young, R., 204, 207–9, 213