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"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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Table of 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
- Social Interactions, Observation, and Justice
- Hacking 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
- Conflicting Moral Goods
- First 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
- “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
- American Political Thought and the Literary Imagination
- The 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
- Short Stories in the Classroom
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
- About the Editors and Contributors
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