Lexington Books
Pages: 404
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Trim: 6½ x 9½
978-0-7391-1184-0 • Hardback • September 2006 • $149.00 • (£115.00)
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.
Chapter 1 Introduction
Part 2 After God and Foundations: Pessimism, Worldliness, and Transcendence
Chapter 3 Thinking and Poetry: Wallace Stevens and Martin Heidegger
Chapter 4 "Phantom Wisdom:" Kant's Transcendental Sophistry
Chapter 5 Cervantes as Educator: Don Quixote and the Practice of Pessimism
Part 6 Re-imaging thie Polis: Aesthetics, Freedom, Corruption, and the Law
Chapter 7 Albert Camus on Tragedy and the Ambiguity of Politics
Chapter 8 Stirring Up of Passion: Must We Fear an Aesthetic Polics?
Chapter 9 On the "Terror" of Polis Freedom: From Martin Heidegger to Jan Patocka and the Czech Velvet Revolution
Chapter 10 Theodicies of Corruption
Chapter 11 Despotic Observation: Montesquieu on the Sociology of Law
Part 12 Politics Amidst Ordinary Life: Freedom, Nature, and Necessity
Chapter 13 Food and Freedom in The Flounder
Chapter 14 "O Happy Living Things": Frankenfoods and the Bounds of Wordsworthian Natural Piety
Chapter 15 Against Heroes: Arendt and McCarthy on the Social
Part 16 Writing Modernity: Text and Context
Chapter 17 "A Superior Disorder": The Writing, Editing, and Censorship of Madame Bovary
Chapter 18 "Written and Unwritten America: Roth on Reacing, Politics, and Theory"
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 rarelyencountered 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