Short Stories and Political Philosophy (eBook, ePUB)

Power, Prose, and Persuasion
Redaktion: Dolgoy, Erin A.; Peabody, Bruce; Hale, Kimberly Hurd

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Short Stories and Political Philosophy: Power, Prose, and Persuasion explores the relationship between fictional short stories and the classic works of political philosophy. This edited volume addresses the innovative ways that short stories grapple with the same complex political and moral questions, concerns, and problems studied in the fields of political philosophy and ethics. The volume is designed to highlight the ways in which short stories may be used as an access point for the challenging works of political philosophy encountered in higher education. Each chapter analyzes a single story through the lens of thinkers ranging from Plato and Aristotle to Max Weber and Hannah Arendt. The contributors to this volume do not adhere to a single theme or intellectual tradition. Rather, this volume is a celebration of the intellectual and literary diversity available to students and teachers of political philosophy. It is a resource for scholars as well as educators who seek to incorporate short stories into their teaching practice.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury eBooks US
• Seitenzahl: 296
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. November 2018
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781498573665
• Artikelnr.: 54762421

Autorenporträt

Erin A. Dolgoy is assistant professor of political science at Rhodes College. Kimberly Hurd Hale is assistant professor of politics at Coastal Carolina University. Bruce Peabody is professor of political science at Fairleigh Dickinson University.

Inhaltsangabe

Chapter One: Introduction - Bruce Peabody, Kimberly Hurd Hale, and Erin A.
Dolgoy Chapter Two: Big Data for the Good Life: Ken Liu's "The Perfect
Match" - Erin A. Dolgoy Chapter Three: Paolo Bacigalupi's "Pop Squad" and
the Examined Life Worth Living - Kimberly Hurd Hale Chapter Four: All the
World's a Cage: Franz Kafka, "A Hunger Artist" - Timothy McCranor and
Steven Michels Chapter Five: Conflicting Moral Goods: William Faulkner's
"Barn Burning" - Mary P. Nichols Chapter Six: From the Iron Cage to the
"Waters of Babylon:" Rationalization and Renewal in a Weberian World -
Bruce Peabody Chapter Seven: The Terrible Justice of Reality: "The Ones Who
Walk Away from Omelas" and the Dilemmas of Political Responsibility -
Michael Christopher Sardo Chapter Eight: Kinship, Community, and the
Bureaucratic State: A Study of Wendell Berry's "Fidelity" - Drew Kennedy
Thompson Chapter Nine: "The Incarnation of My Native Land:" Clover Adams in
Henry James' "Pandora" - Natalie Fuehrer Taylor Chapter Ten: Jumping at Our
Reflection: American Dystopia and Reaction in Shirley Jackson's "The
Lottery" - Abram Trosky Chapter Eleven: Conclusion - Kimberly Hurd Hale,
Bruce Peabody, and Erin A. Dolgoy