Fictional Worlds and the Political Imagination

Erscheinungsjahr 2025
ISBN: 978-3-031-52028-0
Verlag: Springer

Buch, Englisch, 374 Seiten, Format (B × H): 148 mm x 210 mm, Gewicht: 506 g

There has been a steady stream of articles written on the relations between political thought and the interpretation of literature, but there remains a need for a book that both introduces and significantly contributes to the field – particularly one that shows in detail how we can think more freely and creatively about political possibilities by reading and reflecting on politically significant literature. This volume offers analytically acute and culturally rich ways of understanding how it is that we can productively think philosophically about political literature and what kind of distinctive conceptual progress we can make by doing so. Given the extremely widespread interest in political issues, this volume will strike resonant chords far and wide, while offering something that has not been done quite in this way and for which the time certainly seems right.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Hagberg, Garry L.

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Sozialphilosophie, Politische Philosophie
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politikwissenschaft Allgemein Politische Theorie, Politische Philosophie
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturtheorie: Poetik und Literaturästhetik
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literarische Stoffe, Motive und Themen
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Ästhetik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. Introduction: Occasions for Reflection on Political Possibility.- Part I. Relations Between Literary and Political Writing.- 2. J. M. Coetzee’s Fictional Ethics, .- 3. Never Out of Style: On the Critique of Literary Devices in Political Philosophy, 4. The Transpolitical Role of Poetry according to Joseph Brodsky and Seamus Heaney, .- 5. The Antagonism of Thomas Carlyle’s Romanticism and John Rawls’s Rationalism on Social and Distributive Justice, II. Political Psychology Depicted.- 6. Boredom as a Propositional Attitude: Reading Alberto Moravia with Hegel, 7. Beyond Tyranny: Ethical Imagination, Erotic Education, and Justice in Shakespeare’s , .- 8. Mimetic Rivalry and the Scapegoat Mechanism in Arthur Miller’s , III. Power, Violence, Resistance: Overt and Subtle, Physical and Symbolic9. “Command me, Confessor": Violence, Power, and Ethics within Terry Goodkind's  Series, 10. Leontius in Vietnam: The Aesthetics of Violence in Michael Herr’s , .- 11. African Scarification and Slavery: from Anthropology to Allegory, .- 12.Flaubert and Marx on 1848, IV. Outward Corruption, Inner Corrosion, Aesthetic Redemption.- 13. Platonic Corruption in , .- 14. Michael Corleone, Truly Unregulated Capitalist: as Political Allegory and Ethical Catastrophe, .- 15. Retheorizing the Aristotelians’ : The Role of Memories in Narrating and Purging Emotions, .- 16. The Philosopher at the Gate of the Word: A Study of Simone Weil’s Transformative Literature

Über Autor(innen)

Garry L. Hagberg is the James H. Ottaway Professor of Philosophy and Aesthetics at Bard College, USA and Editor of the journal Philosophy and Literature. Author of four books and editor of nine volumes, he is presently completing a new book, Consciousness Portrayed: Seven Case Studies in Philosophical Literature.