1. Introduction: Occasions for Reflection on Political Possibility.- Part I. Relations Between Literary and Political Writing.- 2. J. M. Coetzee’s Fictional Ethics,
Christian
Howard-Sukhil
.- 3. Never Out of Style: On the Critique of Literary Devices in Political Philosophy,
Charlie van Veen and Catherine M. Robb.-
4. The Transpolitical Role of Poetry according to Joseph Brodsky and Seamus Heaney,
Lewis Fallis
.- 5. The Antagonism of Thomas Carlyle’s Romanticism and John Rawls’s Rationalism on Social and Distributive Justice,
Brian Wolfel.-
II. Political Psychology Depicted.- 6. Boredom as a Propositional Attitude: Reading Alberto Moravia with Hegel,
Eliza Starbuck Little.-
7. Beyond Tyranny: Ethical Imagination, Erotic Education, and Justice in Shakespeare’s
The Winter’s Tale
,
Dustin Gish
.- 8. Mimetic Rivalry and the Scapegoat Mechanism in Arthur Miller’s
The Crucible
,
Sina Movaghati.-
III. Power, Violence, Resistance: Overt and Subtle, Physical and Symbolic
.-
9. “Command me, Confessor": Violence, Power, and Ethics within Terry Goodkind's
Sword of Truth
Series,
Benjamin Carpenter.-
10. Leontius in Vietnam: The Aesthetics of Violence in Michael Herr’s
Dispatches
,
Luke Sayers
.- 11. African Scarification and Slavery: from Anthropology to Allegory,
Michael Janis
.- 12.Flaubert and Marx on 1848,
Divya Menon.-
IV. Outward Corruption, Inner Corrosion, Aesthetic Redemption.- 13. Platonic Corruption in
The Handmaid’s Tale
,
Andy
Lamey
.- 14. Michael Corleone, Truly Unregulated Capitalist:
The Godfather II
as Political Allegory and Ethical Catastrophe,
Garry L. Hagberg
.- 15. Retheorizing the Aristotelians’
Catharsis
: The Role of Memories in Narrating and Purging Emotions,
Shilpi Saxena and Diksha Sharma
.- 16. The Philosopher at the Gate of the Word: A Study of Simone Weil’s Transformative Literature
, Caprioglio Panizza and Philip Wilson.