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Liberty, Individuality, and Democracy in Jorge Luis Borges
This book seeks to fill a double lacuna in Borges scholarship. For one, this scholarship has been largely developed through the lens of literary and cultural studies, and not by …
Politics, Literature, and Film in Conversation
This volume presents a series of essays in honor of noted scholar of political theory, Mary P. Nichols. The essays reflect Nichols’ pathbreaking work in ancient Greek political …
The Soul of Statesmanship
Shakespeare’s plays explore a staggering range of political topics, from the nature of tyranny, to the practical effects of Christianity on politics and the family, to the meaning …
Wicked Leadership in Film
Wicked Leadership in Film offers a novel theory of how leaders can contend with so-called “wicked problems,” a class of important, entrenched, and far-reaching political and social …
Theology and Geometry
This collection, the first of its kind, brings together specially commissioned academic essays to mark fifty years since the death of John Kennedy Toole.
Magic in Early Modern England
This book reconsiders the place of magic at the foundations of modernity. Through careful close reading of plays, spell books, philosophical treatises, and witch trial narratives, …
The American Road Trip and American Political Thought
Americans love road trips. They love to go on road trips. They love to read about road trips. They love to watch road trip stories unfold on television and film. Road trip stories …
Walker Percy and the Politics of the Wayfarer
Walker Percy is one of America’s great novelists, and he ought to be known as a political thinker as well. In Walker Percy and the Politics of the Wayfarer, Brian A. Smith makes …
The Dissident Politics in Václav Havel’s Vanek Plays
The Dissident Politics in Václav Havel’s Vanek Plays: Who Is Ferdinand Vanek Anyway focuses on Ferdinand Vanek, a semi-autobiographical character created by Václav Havel and …
Updike and Politics
Presenting the first interdisciplinary consideration of his political thought, Updike and Politics: New Considerations establishes a new scholarly foundation for assessing one of …
Flattering the Demos
This volume brings together reflections on the relationship between politics and storytelling, especially within the democratic context. Examples are drawn from the ancient and …