Beschreibung:
John Horton is Reader in Political Theory at Keele University., Andrea T. Baumeister is Lecturer in Politics at the University of Manchester.
This book argues that literature can make a valuable contribution to political understanding, theory and argument.
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;