Flattering the Demos (eBook)
182 Seiten
Lexington Books (Verlag)
978-1-4985-7841-7 (ISBN)
This volume brings together reflections on the relationship between politics and storytelling, especially within the democratic context. Examples are drawn from the ancient and modern worlds, from classical Greek tragedy and Shakespeare to television, science fiction, and comic books, in order to examine the relationship between the philosophical and the poetical. As a political phenomenon, storytelling is used to confirm the prejudices and uphold the principles that prevail within the culture that produces it, while also providing a means for sparking a criticism of that culture from within. What role should literature play in educating a population, especially as regards one's civic responsibilities and relationship to the political regime, and how does it compete with or complement rational inquiry in providing that education? What observable effects does storytelling in fact tend to have, especially among democratic peoples, and what effects does it have on their political identities, viewpoints, commitments, and behavior? Which passions does it stoke: our hopes or our fears, our suspicions or our loyalties? Can storytelling in democratic times offer resistance to the logic and momentum of democratization or does it only reliably propel it further forward? Does democratic literature only cater to the satisfaction of personal appetites or can it ennoble people so that they are more apt to fulfill their responsibilities to each other as moral agents and fellow citizens? This volume takes diverse approaches to addressing questions like these.
Travis D. Smith is associate professor of the Department of Political Science at Concordia University.Marlene K. Sokolon associate professor of the Department of Political Science at Concordia University.
Chapter 1: Revenge of the Poets: Euripides and the Education of the DēmosChapter 2: Of Villains and Victims: Guilt and Bad Conscience in Richard IIIChapter 3: Only Human: Free Will and Choice in Asimov’s I RobotChapter 4: Comedy and Comic BooksChapter 5: Explaining the Paranoid Style in American Politics: System Disjuncture and Narratives of FictionChapter 6: A Band Of Brothers Against Terrorism: The Citizen-Soldier Ideal in Post-9/11 US Military MobilizationChapter 7: Political TV Series: A Case of Unflattering the DemosChapter 8: The Problem with the Pitiable Rump: Of Impropriety and Political Philosophy
Erscheint lt. Verlag | 31.10.2018 |
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Reihe/Serie | Politics, Literature, & Film |
Co-Autor | James Beneda, Kimberly Hurd Hale, Alexandra Manoliu, Steven Orr, Bruce Peabody, Derval Ryan, Travis D. Smith, Marlene K. Sokolon |
Zusatzinfo | 1 Illustrations including: - 1 Tables. |
Verlagsort | Lanham |
Sprache | englisch |
Themenwelt | Literatur ► Essays / Feuilleton |
Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik | |
Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft | |
Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Politische Theorie | |
Schlagworte | Asimov • Democratic education • Democratic literature • Euripides • Graphic Novels • Military Fiction • political fiction • Politics and Literature • Politics and television • Shakespeare |
ISBN-10 | 1-4985-7841-1 / 1498578411 |
ISBN-13 | 978-1-4985-7841-7 / 9781498578417 |
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