The Myth of the State

by Ernst Cassirer (Author)

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  Paperback
  2009

  $35.60

  A great contemporary German philosopher attacks the explosive problem of political myth in our day. In this final work Ernst Cassirer shows how the irrational forces symbolized by myth and manipulation by the state constantly threaten to destroy the independent mind of civilized man. A brilliant survey of some of the major texts in the history of political theory. --Kenneth Burke, Nation