ABSTRACT
We reside in Weber's disenchanted world, a world of law and letters, UU yet we see bloodrites and sacrifice, origin myths and political phantasms. Weber and Barthes, Blumenberg and Wolin argue that myth is dead, yet we see the revival of myths and mythic form in Nietzsche, Freud, Derrida, Lacan, Irigaray. They offer commentaries on ancient myths; they compose new ones. They accept myth, those untimely ones, as a form in which political philosophy can be couched, give pleasure, and be made productive.
