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Short Stories and Political Philosophy: Power, Prose, and Persuasion explores the relationship between fictional short stories and the classic works of political philosophy. This edited volume addresses the innovative ways that short stories grapple with the same complex political and moral questions, concerns, and problems studied in the fields of political philosophy and ethics. The volume is designed to highlight the ways in which short stories may be used as an access point for the challenging works of political philosophy encountered in higher education. Each chapter analyzes a single story through the lens of thinkers ranging from Plato and Aristotle to Max Weber and Hannah Arendt. The contributors to this volume do not adhere to a single theme or intellectual tradition. Rather, this volume is a celebration of the intellectual and literary diversity available to students and teachers of political philosophy. It is a resource for scholars as well as educators who seek to incorporate short stories into their teaching practice.
Contents
Chapter One: Introduction - Bruce Peabody, Kimberly Hurd Hale, and Erin A. Dolgoy
Chapter Two: Big Data for the Good Life: Ken Liu's "The Perfect Match" - Erin A. Dolgoy
Chapter Three: Paolo Bacigalupi's "Pop Squad" and the Examined Life Worth Living - Kimberly Hurd Hale
Chapter Four: All the World's a Cage: Franz Kafka, "A Hunger Artist" - Timothy McCranor and Steven Michels
Chapter Five: Conflicting Moral Goods: William Faulkner's "Barn Burning" - Mary P. Nichols
Chapter Six: From the Iron Cage to the "Waters of Babylon:" Rationalization and Renewal in a Weberian World - Bruce Peabody
Chapter Seven: The Terrible Justice of Reality: "The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas" and
the Dilemmas of Political Responsibility - Michael Christopher Sardo
Chapter Eight: Kinship, Community, and the Bureaucratic State: A Study of Wendell Berry's
"Fidelity" - Drew Kennedy Thompson
Chapter Nine: "The Incarnation of My Native Land:" Clover Adams in Henry James'
"Pandora" - Natalie Fuehrer Taylor
Chapter Ten: Jumping at Our Reflection: American Dystopia and Reaction in Shirley Jackson's
"The Lottery" - Abram Trosky
Chapter Eleven: Conclusion - Kimberly Hurd Hale, Bruce Peabody, and Erin A. Dolgoy
