Table of Contents

1. Towards A Basic Understanding of Myth 2. The Relationship Between Myth and Ideology 3. The Greatest Myth of All: The "Demystification" of the Modern Mind 4. Myth and the (Post)Modern Experience 5. Mythological Modes of Thought and the Crises of Late Modernity 6. Myth, Transcendence, and the "Revolt" Against Modernity: The Political Philosophy of Eric Voegelin and Leo Strauss 7. Modernity and the "Heroic Act" 8. Mythological Thought and Globalisation

About the Author

Mark Bailey is at the Department of Geography, Politics & Sociology, Newcastle, UK.