El mito en las instituciones: Vico y Sorel [pp. 55-70]

Abstract

The institutional interpretation of the myth is explained here based on the modern reception of the Vichian theory of myth by Georges Sorel. Two orientations can be distinguished in that reception. One of them leads to the unleashing of the mythical in «political activism» (I). The other reception, circumscribed to the early Sorel, interprets the myth sociologically, as an analog of morality. This is the only way that myth can continue to have a legitimate role in political thinking after the Enlightenment (II).