Overview

In this volume, Simona Goi and Frederick M. Dolan gather stimulating arguments for the indispensability of fiction—including poetry, drama, and film—as irreplaceable sites for wrestling with nature, meaning , shortcomings, and the future of modern politics. Between Terror and Freedom brings to the surface an understanding of modernity as a multifaceted and dynamic narrative as it relates to politics, philosophy, and fiction. Collecting essays across fields, Goi and Dolan challenge strict disciplinary boundaries. This is not meant to be read as another contribution to the debate of whether literature is, can, or should be political. Between Terror and Freedom instead reveals how literature illuminates and expands our understanding of philosophical and political questions. Political theorists, philosophers, cultural scholars, and rhetoricians offer a fresh perspective on the questions of our age and the paradoxes of modernity when they read literature.

Full Product Details

9780739111840

Table of Contents

Reviews

Between Terror and Freedom is a remarkably diverse set of thematically linked essays, all of which strive to make sense of the dangers and possibilities of politics in the late modern age. The resources of philosophy, literary criticism, legal, andpolitical theory are deployed by the authors with an attentiveness to text and context and a lightness of touch rarely encountered in a work of this kind. Eminently readable and thought-provoking throughout....--Dana Villa

Between Terror and Freedom is a remarkably diverse set of thematically linked essays, all of which strive to make sense of the dangers and possibilities of politics in the late modern age. The resources of philosophy, literary criticism, legal, and political theory are deployed by the authors with an attentiveness to text and context and a lightness of touch rarelyencountered in a work of this kind. Eminently readable and thought-provoking throughout.--Dana Villa

The essays in this fine collection address an urgent need -- that we begin to overcome the gap that has grown between the disciplinary studies of the idea of modernity and the experience of modernity itself. Dolan and Goi have developed a coherent and powerful set of themes out of any school, affording us new insight into the multiple meanings of modernity.--Dumm, Thomas L.

Author Information

Simona Goi is associate professor of political science at Calvin College in Grand Rapids, Michigan. Frederick Michael Dolan is a member of the faculty at the University of California, Berkeley, in the Department of Rhetoric.

Tab Content 6

Customer Reviews

Recent Reviews

Countries Available