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1 online resource (279 pages) |
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Politics, Literature, & Film |
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Politics, literature, & film.
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| Contents |
Cover; Short Stories and Political Philosophy; Series page; Short Stories and Political Philosophy: Power, Prose, and Persuasion; Copyright page; Contents; Acknowledgments; Chapter 1; Introduction; Political Philosophy and Fiction: The Case for Congruity; Common Ends, Different Means; Short Stories: Advantages of Form and Function; The Endemic Tradition of Storytelling; Disrupting Disciplinary Boundaries; Existing Scholarship and the Contributions of this Volume; Notes; Bibliography; Chapter 2; Big Data for the Good Life; Self-Knowledge and the Good Life |
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Social Interactions, Observation, and JusticeHacking the Human Condition: Enter Big Data; Digital Natives; Surveillance and the Human Condition; The Economics of Big Data; Increased Data, Better Algorithms, More Perfect Matches; Notes; Bibliography; Chapter 3; Paolo Bacigalupi's "Pop Squad" and the Examined Life Worth Living; The Symposium and the Search for Immortality; Children of the Body; Children of the Soul; Meaningless Life; Notes; Bibliography; Chapter 4; All the World's a Cage; Meaning and the Masses; Soul Meets Body; The End of Art; Conclusion; Notes; Bibliography; Chapter 5 |
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Conflicting Moral GoodsFirst Incident: Going to Court; Second Incident: Meeting Major de Spain; Third Incident: Barn Burning; Families, Justice, and Truth-telling; Notes; Bibliography; Chapter 6; From the Iron Cage to the "Waters of Babylon"; The World of Babylon: Exile, Grief, and Renewal; Mapping the Apocalyptic; The Fate of Our Times: Rationalization, Disenchantment, and the Modern Age; POLITICS, RELIGION, AND SCIENCE AS VOCATIONS; Religion, Science, and Disenchantment; Post-Apocalypse Now: To Babylon and Beyond; Escaping the Iron Cage; Notes; Bibliography; Chapter 7 |
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"The Terrible Justice of Reality"From Utopia to Everyday Injustice: "Omelas" as Psychomyth; First Dilemma of Responsibility: Who is Responsible for Omelas?; Second Dilemma of Responsibility: Is it Responsible to Walk Away?; Omelas and Us; Notes; Bibliography; Chapter 8; Kinship, Community, and the Bureaucratic State; The Archetypal Modern Man; A Matter of Patriotism; Berry and the Development of American Agrarian Thought; Notes; Bibliography; Chapter 9; "The Incarnation of My Native Land"; Henry James' "Pandora"; "Pandora" as a Complement to American Political Thought |
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American Political Thought and the Literary ImaginationThe Paradox of Liberalism; The Lady of Infinite Mirth; "Active Patriotism" and Moral Seriousness; Her House Left Out More People Than It Took In; Conclusion; Notes; Bibliography; Chapter 10; Jumping at Our Reflection; "Classics in some category:" "The Lottery" and Republic; Cultural Universals and the Birth of Tragedy; Whose Justice?; Fairness, Legality, Legitimacy, Democracy; History and Hysteria; Blame, Obligation, Intervention; Conclusion; Notes; Bibliography; Chapter 11; Conclusion; Short Fiction's Pedagogical Edge |
| Summary |
This book examines the intersection of fictional narratives and political philosophy, focusing specifically on the use of short stories to teach the classic works of political philosophy. It is a resource for scholars and teachers of politics, philosophy, and literature |
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Short Stories in the Classroom |
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Print version record |
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Short stories, American -- History and criticism
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American literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism
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Politics and literature.
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Political science -- Philosophy -- Study and teaching
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American literature
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Politics and literature
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Short stories, American
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| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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Electronic book
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| Author |
McCranor, Timothy
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Michels, Steven
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Nichols, Mary P
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Peabody, Bruce
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Sardo, Michael Christopher
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Hale, Kimberly Hurd
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| ISBN |
9781498573665 |
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1498573665 |
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