Homo mythicus
By: David Ohana.
Series: Volume II of the nihilist order
Publisher: Sussex Academic Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Brighton, England; Portland, Ore
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9781845192907
Subjects: Mythology -- Political aspects; Myth -- Political aspects
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: The role of myth in history; title: The origins of Sorelian thought; title: The birth of civilization out of myth; title: The illusions of harmony; title: Marxism in Nietzschean dress; title: Violence and force, myth and utopia; title: The Dreyfus revolution; title: The Sorelian order; title: Walter Benjamin, Ernst Bloch and the fascist myth; title: Ernst Cassirer and the rise of "myth-leader"; title: Camus, Sartre, Arendt and the myth of violence; title: Marshall Mcluhan, technology and myth; title: The "anti-intellectual" intellectuals as political mythmakers.