Contents

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. The Politics of Historical Thinking V
3. Acknowledgements
4. Contents IX
5. Introduction: Legacies of Ideology and of Political Myth in the Wake of the Twentieth Century 1
6. Part 1: The Polemics of Political Concepts
7. 1 Carl Schmitt: Politics as Theology and as Myth 25
8. 2 Karl Löwith: Politics and the Quest for Meaning in History 72
9. 3 Leo Strauss: Historical Relativism and the Predicament of the Twentieth Century 89
10. Part 2: Ideology and the Many Faces of Political Myth
11. 4 Ideology, Myth, and the Politics of Weltanschauung 115
12. 5 Ernst Cassirer: Mythical Thought and the Assumptions of the Philosophy of History 142
13. 6 Myth and Ideology in the Historical Dialectics of Theodor W. Adorno and Max Horkheimer 165
14. 7 Ernst Cassirer, Hans Blumenberg, and the Mythical Dimension of Historical Thought 208
15. 8 Conclusion: Myth, Ideology, and the Politics of Historical Interpretation 223
16. Bibliography
17. Index