1st Edition
Literature and the Political Imagination
270 Pages
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Routledge
272 Pages
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Routledge
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This volume shows how modern political theory can be enriched through an engagement with works of literature. It uses the resources of literature to explore issues such as nationalism, liberal philosophy, utopiansim, narrative and the role of theory in political thought. A variety of approaches are adopted and the aim is to show some of the many and diverse ways in which literature may enrich... Read more
Chapter 1 Literature, philosophy and political theory, John Horton, Andrea T. Baumeister; Chapter 2 Taking the narrative turn, Maureen Whitebrook; Chapter 3 ‘What of soul was left, I wonder?’, Susan Mendus; Chapter 4 Life, literature and ethical theory, John Horton; Chapter 5 Modes of political imagining, Martin Warner; Chapter 6 Literature and moral choice, Anthony Arblaster; Chapter 7 The aloofness of liberal politics, Paul Seabright; Chapter 8 ‘Breathes there the man, with soul so dead…’, Margaret Canovan; Chapter 9 The idea of a national literature, Paul Gilbert; Chapter 10 The anti-imperialism of George Orwell, Stephen Ingle; Chapter 11 Contemporary feminist Utopianism, Lucy Sargisson;
Biography
John Horton is Reader in Political Theory at Keele University.,
Andrea T. Baumeister is Lecturer in Politics at the University of Manchester.
