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Intro -- Contents -- Notes on Contributors -- List of Figures -- 1: Introduction: Occasions for Reflection on Political Possibility -- Part I: Relations Between Literary and Political Writing -- 2: Imagining the Other: J.M. Coetzee's Fictional Ethics -- Part 1: Sympathetic Identifications -- Part 2: The Ethics of Fiction -- 3: Never Out of Style: On the Critique of Literary Devices in Political Philosophy -- I -- II -- III -- IV -- 4: The Transpolitical Role of Poetry According to Joseph Brodsky and Seamus Heaney -- Brodsky on Autonomy, Taste, and Learning -- Heaney on Tenderness, Complexity, and Delight -- The Success of the Poets' Defense -- 5: The Antagonism of Thomas Carlyle's Romanticism and John Rawls's Rationalism on Social and Distributive Justice -- Part II: Political Psychology Depicted -- 6: Boredom as a Propositional Attitude: Reading Alberto Moravia with Hegel -- Introduction -- Boredom as a Philosophical Problem -- Boredom, the Novel -- Moravia's Theoretical Frame -- Hegel's Theory of Perception -- Conclusion -- References -- 7: Beyond Tyranny: Ethical Imagination, Erotic Education, and Justice in Shakespeare's The Winter's Tale -- Classical and Modern Tyranny -- Ethical Imagination and the Structure of the Play -- On Tyranny and Erôs -- A Classical Account of Leontes' Jealousy and Anger -- Restoring the Rule of Reason Through Ethical Imagination -- 8: Mimetic Rivalry and the Scapegoat Mechanism in Arthur Miller's The Crucible -- Girard: Mimetic Rivalry and The Scapegoat -- Salem 1962: Proximity and Mimetic Desire -- The Scapegoat Mechanism in The Crucible -- The Plague Metaphor in The Crucible -- Part 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 -- Introduction -- The Politics of Confession.
Immaginaries of Power and Violence -- Violating Otherness -- Conclusion -- 10: Leontius in Vietnam: The Aesthetics of Violence in Michael Herr's Dispatches -- 11: African Scarification and Slavery: From Anthropology to Allegory -- Slavery and the Politics of Remembrance -- From the "Embrenché" of Equiano's Narrative to the "Twenty Scars" of Gyasi's Homegoing -- Scarification, Tradition, Resistance: From the Gaze of Anthropology to Choumali's Hââbré -- Sembène's "Le Voltaïque": Scarification and Gilroy's "Slave Sublime" -- 12: Flaubert and Marx on 1848 -- February to June -- Flaubert's February -- Tragedy as Farce -- Farce as Form -- A Melancholy Education -- Part IV: Outward Corruption, Inner Corrosion, Aesthetic Redemption -- 13: Platonic Corruption in The Handmaid's Tale -- Introduction -- Two Republics -- A Diversity of Distortions -- Corruption in Gilead: Two Explanations -- The Case for the External Explanation -- Conclusion -- 14: Michael Corleone, Truly Unregulated Capitalist: The Godfather II as Political Allegory and Ethical Catastrophe -- 15: Retheorizing Aristotle's Catharsis: The Role of Memories in Narrating and Purging Emotions -- Introduction -- Memories and Catharsis -- The Urge to Purge through Memories: The Power of Catharsis -- Conclusion -- 16: The Philosopher at the Gate of the Word: A Study of Simone Weil's Transformative Literature -- Literature in a Time of Crisis -- The Literary Weil -- Beauty, or How Attention Saved the City -- Tragedy: Affliction and Contradiction -- The Poetic Word and Philosophy -- Conclusion: Literature in Action -- Index.
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Fictional Worlds and the Political Imagination
