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Literature and the political imagination

Author: John Horton; Andrea Baumeister
Publisher: London ; New York : Routledge, 1996.
Edition/Format:   Book : EnglishView all editions and formats
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Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: John Horton; Andrea Baumeister
ISBN: 0415129141 9780415129145 041512915X 9780415129152
OCLC Number: 33042876
Description: viii, 260 p. ; 23 cm.
Contents: 1. Literature, philosophy and political theory / John Horton and Andrea T. Baumeister --
2. Taking the narrative turn: what the novel has to offer political theory / Maureen Whitebrook --
3. 'What of soul was left, I wonder?' The narrative self in political philosophy / Susan Mendus --
4. Life, literature and ethical theory: Martha Nussbaum on the role of the literary imagination in ethical thought / John Horton --
5. Modes of political imagining / Martin Warner --
6. Literature and moral choice / Anthony Arblaster --
7. The aloofness of liberal politics: can imaginative literature furnish a private space? / Paul Seabright --
8. 'Breathes there the man, with soul so dead ...': reflections on patriotic poetry and liberal principles / Margaret Canovan --
9. The idea of a national literature / Paul Gilbert --
10. The anti-imperialism of George Orwell / Stephen Ingle --
11. Contemporary feminist Utopianism: practising Utopia on Utopia / Lucy Sargisson.
Responsibility: edited by John Horton and Andrea T. Baumeister.
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