id author title date pages extension mime words sentence flesch summary cache txt zg64th86645 Jodi Lynn Bruhn Polity and Cosmogony: A Study of Three Myths 2007 .txt text/plain 134 5 41 The myths and societies examined are Enuma Elish in the context of ancient Mesopotamia, Genesis 1 – 2:4a in that of ancient Israel, and two modern myths – Thomas Mann's Roman der Seele and the National Socialist myth of Volk, Reich, and FÌ_hrer – in the context of modern Germany. This dissertation addresses the formative power of myth from the standpoint of political philosophy. cache/zg64th86645.txt txt/zg64th86645.txt