La terza gamba del tavolo umano. Una riflessione su mito e sinistra a partire da Mitocrazia di Yves Citton = The third leg of the human table. A reflection about myth and the Left starting from Mitocrazia by Yves Citton

Abstract

The third leg of the human table. A reflection about myth and the Left starting from Mitocrazia by Yves Citton. Starting from the recent book Mythocratie, written by Yves Citton, the essay tries to comprehend the relationship between myth (and generally the narrative dimension of human rationality) and politics, deconstructing the common idea about sort of a necessary connection between mythology and right wing. Moving through the philosophical categories of different thinkers, the reflection goes from the anthropological dimension of our narrative cognitive structures through the construction of mythological political horizons to the unavoidable duty of thinking a left-wing way of using myth without losing a critical and enlightened tension

Keywords

• myth
• mitocrazia
• narration
• storytelling
• collective imagination
• politics
• culture
• the Right
• the Left