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Inspired and in honor of the work of noted political theorist Mary P. Nichols, the essays in this volume explore political ideas and implications in a range of works of philosophy, literature, and film from classical antiquity to the present day, creating an interdisciplinary conversation across genres.
Inhaltsverzeichnis
IntroductionMatthew Dinan and Denise SchaefferPart I - Conversations about Love and Friendship
Chapter 1 The Good, Truth, and Friendship in Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics
Stephen Block and Patrick Cain
Chapter2: Friendship and the Solitude of Greatness: The Case of Charles de Gaulle
Daniel Mahoney
Chapter 3: Love and Friendship in Henry James's The Bostonians
Lisa Pace Vetter
Chapter 4: Whit Woody Barcelona: Love and Friendship in Whit Stillman's Barcelona and Woody Allen's Vicky, Cristina, Barcelona
Ann Ward and Lee Ward
Part II - Conversations Between Politics and Poetry
Chapter 5: Putting Together Courage and Moderation in Plato and ShakespeareKenneth DeLuca
Chapter 6: Shakespeare's Princess: Education for Love and Rule in The TempestPaul E. Kirkland
Chapter 7: Reading Tolkien through the Lens of Solzhenitsyn's Analysis of Ideology:
On Art, Responsibility, and Progress
Germaine Paulo Walsh
Chapter 8: Social Dance in the Films of Whit Stillman
Carl Eric Scott
Part III - Conversations From Tragedy to Comedy
Chapter 9: History, Tragedy and Rebellion in Camus' Adaptation of Faulkner's Requiem for a NunDenise Schaeffer
Chapter 10: A Vindication of Novels: Jane Austen's Conversation with Mary Wollstonecraft
Natalie Fuehrer Taylor
Chapter 11: From Tragedy to Love: Shakespeare's The Winter's Tale
Sara MacDonald
Chapter 12: The Tragic and the Equitable in Aristotle's Poetics and Ethics
Stephen Sims
Über den Autor / die Autorin
Matthew D. Dinan is assistant professor in the great books program at St. Thomas University.Natalie Taylor is associate professor of political science at Skidmore College.Paul E. Kirkland is associate professor of political science and great ideas at Carthage College.Matthew D. Dinan is assistant professor in the great books program at St. Thomas University.Paul E. Kirkland is associate professor of political science and great ideas at Carthage College.Natalie Taylor is associate professor of political science at Skidmore College.Ann Ward is professor of political science at Baylor University.Lee Ward is professor of political science at Baylor University.
