Lucas, George 127, 150
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Luther, Martin 21
Lyotard, JeanFrançois 16–17, 172–73
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Manichaeism 8, 105
Mann, Thomas viii, 135, 137, 158, 160–62, 164, 168
Marx, Karl, and Marxism xi, 14, 27, 29, 30, 31, 32, 33, 35, 86, 90–91, 105–06, 111, 114, 118, 123, 145
"Mass man" 28, 51, 53, 55, 67–68
McCarthyism 133, 145
McKnight, Stephen 14
McLynn, Frank 74
Mellon, Paul 3
Melville, Herman 10, 11,
Mithraism 8
Monoimus 9
"Monomyth" 9
Moyers, Bill 127, 132
Müller, Maz 171
Mussolini, Benito 3, 14, 30, 52, 86–87
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National Socialism, German, see Nazism
Nazism ix, 12, 28, 33, 39, 51, 54, 56–57, 59, 60–62, 64–66, 70, 82, 85–86, 91–92, 94, 105, 114, 137, 161
Neumann, Erich 62–63
Neoplatonism 8
New Criticism 4
Niebuhr, Reinhold 34, 125
Nietzsche, Friedrich x, xi, 10, 11, 24, 41, 42, 47, 54, 57, 65, 103, 118, 137
Nikhilananda, Swami 141, 146
Noll, Richard 9, 53, 184–85
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Oakes, Maude 141–42
Ophites 8
"Orientalism" 25, 49, 112
Ortega y Gasset, José 28, 51, 54, 55, 56, 158
Otto, Rudolf 112
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Pagels, Elaine 9
Plato 33, 70, 112
Polenz, von, Wilhelm 25
Pound, Ezra 3, 4, 55, 161
Prieswerk, Helene 41
Protestantism 104, 107, 121
Putnam, James Jackson 43
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Rank, Otto 47
Reactionary Modernism 53–55
Reformation, Protestant xiv, 50
Rennie, Brian 92–93, 97–98
Riehl, Heinrich 22–23
Ricketts, Mac Linscott 80, 87–88
Robinson, Henry Morton 142
Roesch, Kurt 137–38
Róheim, Géza 39, 164
Romania viii, xiv, 6, 30, 79–99, 115, 119, 123
Romanticism xi, 7, 19–21, 22, 31, 42, 50
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Said, Edward 26
Salazar, António 90
Samuels, Andrew 61, 74–75
Saturday Review of Literature 3
Schelling, Friedrich W. J. 20, 171
Schleiermacher, Friedrich 107–08, 111–12
Scholem, Gershom 94, 142, 193
Schom, Alan Morris 72–73, 189
Sebastian, Mihail 84, 96
Segal, Robert A. 13, 44, 130, 131, 162–63
Sorel, Georges x, 12, 13, 32, 33
Spencer, Herbert 10
Spengler, Oswald viii, x, xi, xii, 55–56, 135–36, 135, 137, 155–59
Star Trek 127–28
Star Wars 127–129, 162, 167, 168
Stein, Richard 65
Strenski, Ivan 84, 93, 106–07
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Swedenborg, Emanuel 23
Switzerland 38, 52, 56, 72–74, 75, 188–89
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Taylor, Herald, President of Sarah Lawrence College, 145–46
Thoreau, Henry David 19
Time magazine 3, 5
Tylor, Eduward 171
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UFOs 50, 175
V
Valentinus 8
Ven der Post, Lauren 62–63, 65–66
Voegelin, Eric 12–14, 15, 34, 68–70, 76, 92, 119
"Volkish" thought viii, x, 24, 22, 25, 42, 51, 54, 56, 57–61, 167
Volovici, Leon 93
Vries, Jan de 2
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Wagner, Richard 24, 42, 128
Watts, Alan 146
White, Victor 3
Wolff, Kurt 138, 141–42, 164
Wotan, Wotanism 30
Wundt, Wilhelm 20, 22
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Zen 4
Zentralblatt für Psychotherapie 61–62, 187
Zimmer, Heinrich 138, 141–42, 146, 164
Zoroastrianism 8
Document Outline
The Politics of Myth
Contents
Preface
1— Myth, Gnosis, and Modernity
The Midcentury Mythic Trinity
Modern Gnosticism
Antimodernism
The Romantic Roots of Modern Mythology
The Medicine of the Modern World
Apocalyptic and Gnostic Myth
2— Carl Gustav Jung and Wotan's Return
Boy and Man
Primitive Childhood and Modern Maturity
Reactionary Modernism
The German Problem
The Sovereignty of Individuation
The Paradoxical Power of Myth
The Burkean Jungian State
3— Mircea Eliade and Nostalgia for the Sacred
A Life in Two Parts
Messianic Nationalism
Exile from Eternity
Nonhomogeneous Worlds
The Politics of Paradise
Eliade as American
4— Joseph Campbell and the New Quest for the Holy Grail
"The Savant as Reactionary"
Wandering and Wondering
War and Peace
The Mature Mythologist
Basic Ideas
Politics to Live By
5— Conclusion: The Myth of Myth
Notes
Chapter 1— Myth, Gnosis, and Modernity
Chapter 2— Carl Gustav Jung and Wotan's Return
Chapter 3— Mircea Eliade and Nostalgia for the Sacred
Chapter 4— Joseph Campbell and The New Quest for the Holy Grail
Index
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