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Literature and the Political Imagination (Paperback)
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Literature and the Political Imagination (Paperback)
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This volume seeks to show 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 political theorizing, as well as considering some of the
problems to which this may give rise. The theorists discussed
include Richard Rorty, Alasdair MacIntyre, Charles Taylor, and
Martha Nussbaum. There are literary references from Greek tragedy,
Jonathan Swift, Brian Moore, Elizabeth Bowen and contemporary
feminist utopian fiction. All the contributors have a long-standing
interest in the relations between literature and moral and
political thought and are concerned not to be restricted by
conventional academic boundaries, but they are not united by any
party-line or uniformity of intellectual commitments. This volume
should be of interest to all students engaged in the study of
politics and literature.
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