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Damned If You Do - Dilemmas of Action in Literature and Popular Culture (Hardcover)
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Damned If You Do - Dilemmas of Action in Literature and Popular Culture (Hardcover)
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Problems of individual moral choice have always been closely bound
up with the larger normative concerns of political theory. There
are several reasons for this continuing connection. First, the
value conflicts involved in private moral choice often find
themselves reproduced on the public stage: for example, states may
find it difficult to do right by both justice and mercy in much the
same way individuals do. Second, we frequently find conflicts among
the values at stake in individual life and public life, such that
the moral choice we must make is between private and public goods.
Loosely speaking, choices which express these conflicts are what
philosophers call moral dilemmas: choices in which no matter what
one does one will be forfeiting some important moral good; in which
wrongdoing is to some degree inescapable; in which one is (perhaps
literally) damned if one does and damned if one doesn't. The eight
essays collected in this volume explore the philosophical problem
of moral dilemmas as that problem finds expression in ancient
drama, classic and contemporary novels, television, film, and
popular fiction. They consider four main types of dilemmas. In the
first section, the authors examine dilemmas associated with
political stability and regime change as expressed in the HBO
television series Deadwood and in Stephen King's novels and short
stories. The second section confronts dilemmas associated with
public leadership, considering the ethical conflicts in Aeschylus's
classical dramas The Suppliants, Tolkien's Lord of the Rings, and
in the contemporary FOX television series 24. In the volume's third
section, the authors examine dilemmas of institutional evil,
specifically slavery, as they emerge in Harriet Beecher Stowe's
classic novel Uncle Tom's Cabin and in J.K. Rowling's Harry Potter
novels. Finally, the collection considers dilemmas of community and
choice in Toni Morrison's novel Paradise and in the contemporary
film A Simple Plan.
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