Founding Fictions: History, Myth, and the Modern Age

Abstract

ion, and myth making in the arts, and introspection, primitivism, abstraction, and myth making in politics, may be related manifestations" (xvi). The bold move here is to leap from art to politics. Eksteins leaves behind individual perceptions to capture collective feelings; he deploys categories of intellectual history to understand social fates. Eksteins does not mince words: history is denied (89), reduced to myth (194), and regarded as bankrupt (257); the past itself is pushed aside (236) This content downloaded from 157.55.39.158 on Fri, 18 Nov 2016 04:12:10 UTC All use subject to http://about.jstor.org/terms