• CARL SCHMITT’S CONTRIBUTION TO A THEORY OF POLITICAL MYTH Lara, María Pía 2017 History and Theory , Vol. 56 , Issue 3 , S. 379 ff. ( Zeitschrift ) Englisch 0018-2656 | 1468-2303 Abstract

    My goal in this essay is to show that myths have played a larger role than we might think in politics and in political theory and that myths are essential to politics. For this purpose I will use Schmitt’s theory of myth, since he elaborated his theory with strong interpretations of two different myths: Hobbes’s Leviathan and Shakespeare’s Hamlet . I will compare Schmitt’s interpretations of Hamlet with my own, as doing so will provide a critical view of Schmitt’s conclusions, and it will enable me to develop my own conception of myth and its relations to political theory and history.

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