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Title Between terror and freedom : politics, philosophy, and fiction speak of modernity / edited by Simona Goi and Frederick M. Dolan
Published Lanham, MD : Lexington Books, [2006]
©2006

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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
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
Freedom
Politics
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references
Subject Fiction -- History and criticism.
Fiction.
Author Goi, Simona, 1969-
Dolan, Frederick Michael.
LC no. 2006025356
ISBN 9780739111840 cloth alkaline paper
0739111841 cloth alkaline paper