...equipoise is never completely established. What we find here is a labile rather than a static equilibrium. In politics we are always living on volcanic soil....are no longer able to combat the demonic mythical powers. A French scholar, E. Doutte\ has written a very interesting book Magie et religion dans I'Afriqne...

...sure of themselves. In these moments the time for myth has come again. For myth has not really been vanquished and subjugated. It is always there, lurking...are no longer able to combat the demonic mythical powers.13 There is clearly contained within this statement a negative value judgment apropos myth and...

...dangerous irrational forces at work in modern mass consciousness, wrote in his book The Myth of the State: "For myth has not been really vanquished and subjugated....are no longer able to combat the demonic mythical powers." ' Whether dangerous, as Cassirer and Roland Barthes believe, or beneficial, as some of Joseph...

...sure of themselves. In these moments the time for myth has come again. For myth has not really been vanquished and subjugated. It is always there, lurking...dark and waiting for its hour and opportunity. This moment comes as soon as the binding forces of man's social life lose their strength and are no longer...

...to be safe against all attacks. But in politics the equipoise is never completely established. ... In all critical moments of man's social life, the...are no longer able to combat the demonic mythical power. (Cassirer 1973: 280) However, Cassirer himself realises that this is still not an answer. To...