Product Description
Contemporary politics goes on at a mythic level. This is the provocative argument put forward in this unique book. The first part focuses on leadership and vision, while the second part deals with `the one and many' theme in politics.
From the Back Cover
There are deep, highly-charged relationships between mythological or archetypal reality, psychological reality, and political reality. The Vision Thing: Myth, Politics and Psyche in the World explores the tensions of these relationships, in an attempt to bring together the political and mythological realms through psychological experience.
Emphasising the importance of myth in human affairs - the American Dream being just one - a collection of high-profile contributors analyse the difficulty of uniting vision with reality in diverse situations, with chapters including
The Feminine and Politics
The Wizard of Oz: A Vision of Development in the American Political Psyche
Factionalism and Interethnic Conflict: Narratives in Myth and Politics
Practicing Politics in the Economic Myth
The Vision Thing acknowledges the role of myth in both the collective and individual psyche, and its importance in human and political affairs. Its relevance to contemporary politics cannot be understated, and this book