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Author(s): David Grant
ISBN(s): 9780415988759, 0415988756
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Year: 2008
Language: english
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ISBN 10: 0415988756 
ISBN 13: 9780415988759
Author:  David Grant

We see the modern State as the most rational form of governing yet devised, and one which properly recognises our inherent individual rights. However, as the histories of colonialism and imprisonment reveal, it is also an intruder into the lives of generally unwilling individuals, constraining rights. This book looks beneath the contradiction to see an entity willingly sustained by all individuals and for which we forgo our responsibility to and for ourselves. We place ourselves in the hands of those interests that promise to deal with our fears and desires the best. Probing the work of political thinkers from Hobbes to Rawls, the book discovers a State that is a real, mythological entity, spreading across social and geographic space and concerned first with satisfying our two passions. Understanding this mythology may allow reason to emerge from its service to fear and desire, so that the modern State could become truly modern. This book will be of interest to scholars in Sociology, Politics, Philosophy, and Law.

The Mythological State and its Empire Routledge Studies in Social and Political Thought 1st Table of contents:

  • Chapter 1: The Athenian Polis and its Foundational Myths

    • Examination of key Athenian foundation myths (e.g., autochthony, Theseus, Erechtheus).
    • How these myths established Athenian identity and claims to territory.
    • The role of cults and rituals in reinforcing these narratives.

  • Chapter 2: Myth and the Invention of Athenian Imperialism

    • Analysis of how myths were adapted or created to justify Athenian dominance over other Greek city-states.
    • The transition from defensive alliances to imperial control.
    • Examples of mythological narratives used in Athenian foreign policy.

  • Chapter 3: The Mythological Genealogy of Empire: Athenian Ancestry and Claims to Leadership

    • Exploration of genealogical myths linking Athens to heroic pasts and divine favor.
    • How these claims legitimized Athenian hegemony within the Greek world.
    • Comparison with other states’ mythological claims.

  • Chapter 4: Ritual Performance and Imperial Hegemony

    • The role of Athenian festivals (e.g., Panathenaia, Dionysia) in projecting power and unifying subjects.
    • How rituals involving imperial subjects (e.g., tribute, participation in Athenian cults) reinforced the empire.
    • The symbolic significance of religious practices in imperial control.

  • Chapter 5: The Myth of the Protector: Athens, Barbarians, and the Persian Wars

    • How the narratives of the Persian Wars were shaped to portray Athens as the savior of Greece.
    • The construction of the “barbarian” other in Athenian mythology and rhetoric.
    • The use of this heroic narrative to justify the Delian League’s transformation into an empire.

  • Chapter 6: Mythological Challenges and Resistance to Athenian Empire

    • Examination of how subject states or rival powers used their own myths to resist Athenian influence.
    • Examples of counter-narratives or reinterpretations of shared myths.
    • The ideological struggles inherent in imperial expansion.

  • Chapter 7: The Decline of Empire and the Fate of Mythological Narratives

    • How changing political realities affected the power and relevance of imperial myths.
    • The legacy of Athenian mythological statecraft after the Peloponnesian War

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