...Stuart J. Murray REVIEW ESSAY MYTH AS CRITIQUE?: REVIEW OF MICHEL FOUCAULT'S "SOCIETY MUST BE DEFENDED" Stuart J. Murray Michel Foucault, "Society Must Be Defended": Lectures at the College de France, 1975-1976, Translated by David Macey New York: Picador...

... Hans Blumenberg comments near the outset of Work on Myth, his monu- mental tome on the subject of the role of myth in human culture. Evidently surmising that readers might attribute to him just this patho- logical enthusiasm, Blumenberg moves quickly to disarm this pos- sible...

... into a vision of “archaic totalitarianism”: “On its own terms, as a poetic vision of utopia, the Cantos is a failure: It is not, as Pound claimed, ‘a poem containing history’ but a poem containing, and consumed by, myth : by delusional, bourgeois myths—which Pound converts into neo-pagan ‘mysteries’—of class...

... language of classicism led him ultimately to turn away from the uncertainty of allegory" and toward the obscurantism of myth" (89). Sironi's aesthetic choices in his painting, in other words, echo early fascism's own ideological strategies. Braun then treats...

... PRIMITIVES 61 regenerative effect on Italian society. Historians now concur that the concept of youth played a key role in Italian Fascist ideology under Mussolini, but scholars have yet to consider the impact of that ideological myth on fascist groups in France.' In this essay, I...

... coded as feminine in their work) with the production of totalitarianism. In other words, there is no simple opposition of mythological and En- lightenment th.inking; Enlightenment ultimately both tends toward and reverts to myth. If this is the case — and if, as I...

.... To perspectivism corre- sponds the other notion of structure, which Lévi- Strauss developed through analyses of the myths of these same animist peoples: open groups of semantic distinctions that transform from myth to myth, in a way almost isomorphic with the above practices of changing...

.... In interviews Arimah has stated that she is invested in creating her own myths. 4 When asked about the inspiration for her story “Who Will Greet You at Home,” Arimah responds by asserting that the story is her own invented myth because she is “taken by the idea of creating new myth that speaks to our current...

... of creation: it produced the reality in which man would live. Moyn shows how Blumenberg expanded Vico's account of the origins of culture into "a theory of man as inextricably caught in a web of metaphor and myth that he himself has spun" — includ- ing the myth of his origins...

..., myths, literary clichés, propagandistic matrices, etc6 Dobrenko claims that through their lack of punctuation Prigov’s approximately forty thousand poems represent a “syntactic liberty [that] suggests the thought that these texts have no boundaries at all: they have neither...

..., in which I begin to study the presence of myth in the twentieth century through works of art and various media. I say "begin" because what I did in that book was only to initiate a certain type of research into films and art — still in progress — in order to locate...

... and Their Vicissitudes” distills Freud’s theory of the ge- nealogy of hate. Here hate does not appear merely as one possible destination of the drives. On the contrary, when, like Plato in his recounting of Aristophanes’ myth of Eros, Freud undertakes to ac- count for the “origins” of the subject through a sort...

... of the most comprehensive discussions of the Petersburg Text by members of the Tartu-Moscow Semiotic School, especially Toporov, are untranslated. For a good introduction to—and, to some extent, iteration of—this myth of Petersburg by an Anglophone thinker who connects the myth to the material conditions...

..., these symbolic, religious, and even in some cases mysti- cal texts ought to be defi ned as “symbolically based rational nar- ratives,” in the sense that they constitute myths, as Paul Ricoeur defi nes the term.3 These narratives, in the second place, can under- go a double-hermeneutic...

..., Darger’s Resources, presents itself as an act of recu- peration. Moon conceives of his chief task as the recovery of our understanding of Darger from the haze of critical distortions that surround it. One such distortion is the myth that accompanies Darger’s designation...

... . Stewart Charles . Dreaming and Historical Consciousness in Island Greece . Chicago : University of Chicago Press , 2017 . Williams Mark . Ireland’s Immortals: A History of the Gods of Irish Myth . Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press , 2016 . Woloch Alex . Or Orwell...

... ground to introduce truth claims. It is this facticity that Bradwell wants to turn inside out, since the hashtag is also mobilized to perpetuate myths, commence epistemic warfare, and justify destructive agendas. #AllLivesMatter not only circulates the myth of universality but also distorts numbers...

...) and Jacques Derrida’s readings of Freud, this was at once the question of the origin of law and literature, which Nancy, however, read as the problem of identification at the heart of community and of myth defined as poesie . In a published exchange of letters initiated by him the day after the colloquium...

... of the chariot as prosthetic extension of self, deified as a constellation ac- cording to Greco-Roman myth. Crippled at birth, Erichthonius was he who, according to Virgil's Georgics, "first dared to couple four steeds to the car and to stand victorious over flying wheels It is also the story of Phaeton...

... Books Received Mark Antliff, Avant-Garde Fascism: The Mobilization of Myth, Art, and Culture in France, 1909–1939 (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2007). Hélène Cixous, Dream I Tell You, trans. Beverley Bie Brahic (New York: Columbia University Press, 2007...