Description
In this volume, Simona Goi and Frederick M. Dolan gather stimulating arguments for the indispensability of fiction-including poetry, drama, and film-as irreplaceable sites for wrestling with nature, meaning , shortcomings, and the future of modern politics. Between Terror and Freedom brings to the surface an understanding of modernity as a multifaceted and dynamic narrative as it relates to politics, philosophy, and fiction. Collecting essays across fields, Goi and Dolan challenge strict disciplinary boundaries. This is not meant to be read as another contribution to the debate of whether literature is, can, or should be political. Between Terror and Freedom instead reveals how literature illuminates and expands our understanding of philosophical and political questions. Political theorists, philosophers, cultural scholars, and rhetoricians offer a fresh perspective on the questions of our age and the paradoxes of modernity when they read literature.
About the Author
Simona Goi is associate professor of political science at Calvin College in Grand Rapids, Michigan. Frederick Michael Dolan is a member of the faculty at the University of California, Berkeley, in the Department of Rhetoric.
Reviews
The essays in this fine collection address an urgent need - that we begin to overcome the gap that has grown between the disciplinary studies of the idea of modernity and the experience of modernity itself. Dolan and Goi have developed a coherent and powerful set of themes out of any school, affording us new insight into the multiple meanings of modernity. -- Thomas L. Dumm, Amherst College, author of A Politics of the Ordinary
Between Terror and Freedom is a remarkably diverse set of thematically linked essays, all of which strive to make sense of the dangers and possibilities of politics in the late modern age. The resources of philosophy, literary criticism, legal, andpolitical theory are deployed by the authors with an attentiveness to text and context and a lightness of touch rarely encountered in a work of this kind. Eminently readable and thought-provoking throughout.... -- Dana Villa, Packey J. Dee Professor of Political Theory, University of Notre Dame
Between Terror and Freedom is a remarkably diverse set of thematically linked essays, all of which strive to make sense of the dangers and possibilities of politics in the late modern age. The resources of philosophy, literary criticism, legal, and political theory are deployed by the authors with an attentiveness to text and context and a lightness of touch rarely encountered in a work of this kind. Eminently readable and thought-provoking throughout. -- Dana Villa, Packey J. Dee Professor of Political Theory, University of Notre Dame
Book Information
ISBN 9780739111840
Author Simona Goi
Format Hardback
Page Count 404
Imprint Lexington Books
Publisher Lexington Books
Weight(grams) 753g
Dimensions(mm) 237mm * 164mm * 35mm
About the Author
Simona Goi is associate professor of political science at Calvin College in Grand Rapids, Michigan. Frederick Michael Dolan is a member of the faculty at the University of California, Berkeley, in the Department of Rhetoric.
Reviews
The essays in this fine collection address an urgent need - that we begin to overcome the gap that has grown between the disciplinary studies of the idea of modernity and the experience of modernity itself. Dolan and Goi have developed a coherent and powerful set of themes out of any school, affording us new insight into the multiple meanings of modernity. -- Thomas L. Dumm, Amherst College, author of A Politics of the Ordinary
Between Terror and Freedom is a remarkably diverse set of thematically linked essays, all of which strive to make sense of the dangers and possibilities of politics in the late modern age. The resources of philosophy, literary criticism, legal, andpolitical theory are deployed by the authors with an attentiveness to text and context and a lightness of touch rarely encountered in a work of this kind. Eminently readable and thought-provoking throughout.... -- Dana Villa, Packey J. Dee Professor of Political Theory, University of Notre Dame
Between Terror and Freedom is a remarkably diverse set of thematically linked essays, all of which strive to make sense of the dangers and possibilities of politics in the late modern age. The resources of philosophy, literary criticism, legal, and political theory are deployed by the authors with an attentiveness to text and context and a lightness of touch rarely encountered in a work of this kind. Eminently readable and thought-provoking throughout. -- Dana Villa, Packey J. Dee Professor of Political Theory, University of Notre Dame
Book Information
ISBN 9780739111840
Author Simona Goi
Format Hardback
Page Count 404
Imprint Lexington Books
Publisher Lexington Books
Weight(grams) 753g
Dimensions(mm) 237mm * 164mm * 35mm
