Between Terror and Freedom Philosophy, Politics, and Fiction Speak of Modernity

by Goi, Simona; Dolan, Frederick M.; Chytry, Joseph; Constable, Marianne; Dienstag, Joshua Foa; Dolan, Frederick Michael; Francois, Anne-Lise; Isaac, Jeffrey; Euben, Peter; MacDonald, Michael; Naddaff, Ramona; Pitkin, Hannah; Seligsohn, Andrew; Stow, Simon

• ISBN13: 9780739111840
• ISBN10: 0739111841
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2006-09-27
• Publisher: Lexington Books

Summary

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.

Table of Contents

Preface	vii
Introduction	xi
Part I After God and Foundations: Pessimism, Worldliness and Transcendence
1. Thinking and Poetry: Wallace Stevens and Martin Heidegger	3	(12)
Frederick M. Dolan
2. "Phantom Wisdom:" Kant's Transcendental Sophistry	15	(28)
Michael MacDonald
3. Cervantes as Educator: Don Quixote and the Practice of Pessimism	43	(28)
Joshua Foa Dienstag
Part II Re-imagining the Polis: Aesthetics, Freedom, Corruption and the Law
4. Albert Camus on Tragedy and the Ambiguity of Politics	71	(16)
Jeffrey C. Isaac
5. Stirring Up of Passion: Must We Fear an Aesthetic Politics?	87	(32)
Andrew Seligsohn
6. On the "Terror" of Polis Freedom: From Martin Heidegger to Jan Patocka and the Czech Velvet Revolution	119	(54)
Josef Chytry
7. Theodicies of Corruption	173	(22)
Peter Euben
8. Despotic Observation: Montesquieu on the Sociology of Law	195	(28)
Marianne Constable
Part III Politics Amidst Ordinary Life: Freedom, Nature and Necessity
9. Food and Freedom in The Flounder	223	(26)
Hanna F. Pitkin
10. "O Happy Living Things": Frankenfoods and the Bounds of Wordsworthian Natural Piety	249	(42)
Anne-Lise François
11. Against Heroes: Arendt and McCarthy on the Social	291	(30)
Simona Goi
Part IV Writing Modernity: Text and Context
12. "A Superior Disorder": The Writing, Editing and Censorship of Madame Bovary	321	(40)
Ramona Naddaff
13. "Written and Unwritten America: Roth on Reading, Politics and Theory"	361	(14)
Simon Stow
List of Contributors	375