As the publishing sensation of the last half-century, Harry Potter
dominates early education in politics. Children, tweens, teens, and
adults love it; and most students come to college knowing at least
some of it. This dark fantasy analyzes politics in strikingly
practical and institutional ways. Like ancient Sophists, modern
Machiavellians, and postmodern Nietzscheans, the Potter books treat
politics as dark arts and our defenses against them. The Potter
saga overflows with drama, humor, and insight into ours as dark
times of terrible troubles. These reach from racism, sexism, and
specism to fascism, terrorism, autocracy, and worse. Harry and his
friends respond with detailed, entertaining takes on many
ideologies, movements, and styles of current politics.Defenses
Against the Dark Arts argues that Potter performances of magic show
us how and why to leap into political action. This includes the
high politics of governments and elections, and especially the
everyday politics of families, schools, businesses, media, and
popular cultures. It explores Potter versions of idealism, realism,
feminism, and environmentalism. It clarifies Potter accounts of
bureaucracy, nationalism, and patronage. And it analyzes Potter
resistance through existentialism and anarchism. The emphasis is on
learning to face and defend against dark arts in dark times.
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