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Mythic Narrative
Mythic narratives are narratives of a particular kind. If narratives are, broadly speaking, ways of linking events, mythic narratives are successions of events that grant them not simply meaning but also significance.
After being neglected for a long time by political theory, mythic narratives are today getting more attention. So, for example, Chiara Bottici and Ajume Wingo have recently argued that we need to explore not only the conditions for public reason but also the conditions for public mythic narratives. Public mythic narratives play an important role in political mobilization. They convey the crucial beliefs of a social group or society in an emotionally effective way and may not be incompatible with the principle of the autonomy of individuals.
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