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1 Nature and Myth in Plato’s Republic

© 2020 by the President and Fellows of Harvard College

© 2020 by the President and Fellows of Harvard College

Chapters in this book

  1. Frontmatter i
  2. CONTENTS vii
  3. Introduction: Plato’s Legacy and the Problem of Myth in Political Thought 1
  4. PART ONE. POLITICAL AND PHILOSOPHICAL BOUNDARIES
  5. 1 Nature and Myth in Plato’s Republic 37
  6. 2 The Utopian Founding Myths of More and Bacon 70
  7. 3 An Enlightenment Fable: Leibniz and the Boundaries of Reason 104
  8. PART TWO. MYTH AND MODERNITY
  9. 4 The New Mythology of German Idealism 149
  10. 5 The Demon of the City: Cassirer on Myth and Plato 189
  11. Conclusion 224
  12. Notes 241
  13. Acknowledgments 309
  14. Index 313
Plato and the Mythic Tradition in Political Thought
This chapter is in the book Plato and the Mythic Tradition in Political Thought
https://doi.org/10.4159/9780674250185-002

Chapters in this book

  1. Frontmatter i
  2. CONTENTS vii
  3. Introduction: Plato’s Legacy and the Problem of Myth in Political Thought 1
  4. PART ONE. POLITICAL AND PHILOSOPHICAL BOUNDARIES
  5. 1 Nature and Myth in Plato’s Republic 37
  6. 2 The Utopian Founding Myths of More and Bacon 70
  7. 3 An Enlightenment Fable: Leibniz and the Boundaries of Reason 104
  8. PART TWO. MYTH AND MODERNITY
  9. 4 The New Mythology of German Idealism 149
  10. 5 The Demon of the City: Cassirer on Myth and Plato 189
  11. Conclusion 224
  12. Notes 241
  13. Acknowledgments 309
  14. Index 313
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