Description |
xxvi, 375 pages ; 24 cm |
Contents |
1. Thinking and poetry : Wallace Stevens and Martin Heidegger / Frederick M. Dolan -- 2. "Phantom wisdom" : Kant's transcendental sophistry / Michael MacDonald -- 3. Cervantes as educator : Don Quixote and the practice of pessimism / Joshua Foa Dienstag -- 4. Albert Camus on tragedy and the ambiguity of politics / Jeffrey C. Isaac -- 5. Stirring up of passion : must we fear an aesthetic politics? / Andrew Seligsohn -- 6. On the "terror" of Polis freedom : from Martin Heidegger to Jan Patocka and the Czech velvet revolution / Josef Chytry -- 7. Theodicies of corruption / Peter Euben -- 8. Despotic observation : Montesquieu on the sociology of law / Marianne Constable -- 9. Food and freedom in The flounder / Hanna F. Pitkin -- 10. "O happy living things" : Frankenfoods and the bounds of Wordworthian natural piety / Anne-Lise Francois -- 11. Against heroes : Arendt and McCarthy on the social / Simona Goi |
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12. "A superior disorder" : the writing, editing and censorship of Madame Bovary / Ramona Naddaff -- 13. "Written and unwritten America : Roth on reading, politics and theory" / Simon Stow |
Analysis |
Terror |
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Freedom |
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Politics |
Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references |
Subject |
Fiction -- History and criticism.
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Fiction.
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Author |
Goi, Simona, 1969-
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Dolan, Frederick Michael.
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LC no. |
2006025356 |
ISBN |
9780739111840 cloth alkaline paper |
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0739111841 cloth alkaline paper |
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