Between Terror and Freedom

Philosophy, Politics, and Fiction Speak of Modernity

Inbunden, Engelska, 2006

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Beskrivning

In this volume, Simona Goi and Frederick M. Dolan gather stimulating arguments for the indispensability of fiction—including poetry, drama, and film—as irreplaceable sites for wrestling with nature, meaning , shortcomings, and the future of modern politics. Between Terror and Freedom brings to the surface an understanding of modernity as a multifaceted and dynamic narrative as it relates to politics, philosophy, and fiction. Collecting essays across fields, Goi and Dolan challenge strict disciplinary boundaries. This is not meant to be read as another contribution to the debate of whether literature is, can, or should be political. Between Terror and Freedom instead reveals how literature illuminates and expands our understanding of philosophical and political questions. Political theorists, philosophers, cultural scholars, and rhetoricians offer a fresh perspective on the questions of our age and the paradoxes of modernity when they read literature.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2006-09-27
Mått:164 x 237 x 35 mm
Vikt:753 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:404
Förlag:Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
ISBN:9780739111840

Utforska kategorier

Filosofi inom Filosofi och religion
Filosofiska discipliner inom Filosofi och religion
Film inom Kultur

Mer om författaren

Simona Goi is associate professor of political science at Calvin College in Grand Rapids, Michigan. Frederick Michael Dolan is a member of the faculty at the University of California, Berkeley, in the Department of Rhetoric.

Recensioner i media

The essays in this fine collection address an urgent need — that we begin to overcome the gap that has grown between the disciplinary studies of the idea of modernity and the experience of modernity itself. Dolan and Goi have developed a coherent and powerful set of themes out of any school, affording us new insight into the multiple meanings of modernity.

Innehållsförteckning

Chapter 1 IntroductionPart 2 After God and Foundations: Pessimism, Worldliness, and TranscendenceChapter 3 Thinking and Poetry: Wallace Stevens and Martin HeideggerChapter 4 "Phantom Wisdom:" Kant's Transcendental SophistryChapter 5 Cervantes as Educator: Don Quixote and the Practice of PessimismPart 6 Re-imaging thie Polis: Aesthetics, Freedom, Corruption, and the LawChapter 7 Albert Camus on Tragedy and the Ambiguity of PoliticsChapter 8 Stirring Up of Passion: Must We Fear an Aesthetic Polics?Chapter 9 On the "Terror" of Polis Freedom: From Martin Heidegger to Jan Patocka and the Czech Velvet RevolutionChapter 10 Theodicies of CorruptionChapter 11 Despotic Observation: Montesquieu on the Sociology of LawPart 12 Politics Amidst Ordinary Life: Freedom, Nature, and NecessityChapter 13 Food and Freedom in The FlounderChapter 14 "O Happy Living Things": Frankenfoods and the Bounds of Wordsworthian Natural PietyChapter 15 Against Heroes: Arendt and McCarthy on the SocialPart 16 Writing Modernity: Text and ContextChapter 17 "A Superior Disorder": The Writing, Editing, and Censorship of Madame BovaryChapter 18 "Written and Unwritten America: Roth on Reacing, Politics, and Theory"