Travis D. Smith is associate professor of the Department of Political Science at Concordia University.Marlene K. Sokolon associate professor of the Department of Political Science at Concordia University.

Sokolon, Smith and the impressive list of contributors to this book take ideas seriously, and see storytelling as a key to understanding political philosophy. Focusing on fictional sources of political thought, they see the democratic imagination of citizens enlivened, even shaped by poetry, narrative storytelling, and other non-traditional forms of literature. This important book, if paired with Thomas Cronin’s Imagining a Great Republic, will change the way we think about political philosophy and democratic citizenship.

• Chapter 1: Revenge of the Poets: Euripides and the Education of the DemosChapter 2: Of Villains and Victims: Guilt and Bad Conscience in Richard IIIChapter 3: Only Human: Free Will and Choice in Asimov’s I RobotChapter 4: Comedy and Comic BooksChapter 5: Explaining the Paranoid Style in American Politics: System Disjuncture and Narratives of FictionChapter 6: A Band Of Brothers Against Terrorism: The Citizen-Soldier Ideal in Post-9/11 US Military MobilizationChapter 7: Political TV Series: A Case of Unflattering the DemosChapter 8: The Problem with the Pitiable Rump: Of Impropriety and Political Philosophy

Travis D. Smith is associate professor of the Department of Political Science at Concordia University.Marlene K. Sokolon associate professor of the Department of Political Science at Concordia University.

Sokolon, Smith and the impressive list of contributors to this book take ideas seriously, and see storytelling as a key to understanding political philosophy. Focusing on fictional sources of political thought, they see the democratic imagination of citizens enlivened, even shaped by poetry, narrative storytelling, and other non-traditional forms of literature. This important book, if paired with Thomas Cronin’s Imagining a Great Republic, will change the way we think about political philosophy and democratic citizenship.

• Chapter 1: Revenge of the Poets: Euripides and the Education of the DemosChapter 2: Of Villains and Victims: Guilt and Bad Conscience in Richard IIIChapter 3: Only Human: Free Will and Choice in Asimov’s I RobotChapter 4: Comedy and Comic BooksChapter 5: Explaining the Paranoid Style in American Politics: System Disjuncture and Narratives of FictionChapter 6: A Band Of Brothers Against Terrorism: The Citizen-Soldier Ideal in Post-9/11 US Military MobilizationChapter 7: Political TV Series: A Case of Unflattering the DemosChapter 8: The Problem with the Pitiable Rump: Of Impropriety and Political Philosophy

Travis D. Smith is associate professor of the Department of Political Science at Concordia University.Marlene K. Sokolon associate professor of the Department of Political Science at Concordia University.

Sokolon, Smith and the impressive list of contributors to this book take ideas seriously, and see storytelling as a key to understanding political philosophy. Focusing on fictional sources of political thought, they see the democratic imagination of citizens enlivened, even shaped by poetry, narrative storytelling, and other non-traditional forms of literature. This important book, if paired with Thomas Cronin’s Imagining a Great Republic, will change the way we think about political philosophy and democratic citizenship.

• Chapter 1: Revenge of the Poets: Euripides and the Education of the DemosChapter 2: Of Villains and Victims: Guilt and Bad Conscience in Richard IIIChapter 3: Only Human: Free Will and Choice in Asimov’s I RobotChapter 4: Comedy and Comic BooksChapter 5: Explaining the Paranoid Style in American Politics: System Disjuncture and Narratives of FictionChapter 6: A Band Of Brothers Against Terrorism: The Citizen-Soldier Ideal in Post-9/11 US Military MobilizationChapter 7: Political TV Series: A Case of Unflattering the DemosChapter 8: The Problem with the Pitiable Rump: Of Impropriety and Political Philosophy