Author: Susan McWilliams Barndt
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN: 1498556876
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 138
Book Description
It’s hard to imagine the American dream without American road trips. This book takes readers on a journey through American road trip stories, revealing that they involve more than mere escapism—that they are an important and long-neglected source of American political thought.
The American Road Trip and American Political Thought
Author: Susan McWilliams Barndt
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN: 1498556876
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 138
Book Description
It’s hard to imagine the American dream without American road trips. This book takes readers on a journey through American road trip stories, revealing that they involve more than mere escapism—that they are an important and long-neglected source of American political thought.
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN: 1498556876
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 138
Book Description
It’s hard to imagine the American dream without American road trips. This book takes readers on a journey through American road trip stories, revealing that they involve more than mere escapism—that they are an important and long-neglected source of American political thought.
Short Stories and Political Philosophy
Author: Kimberly Hurd Hale
Publisher: Lexington Books
ISBN: 1498573665
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 296
Book Description
This book examines the intersection of fictional narratives and political philosophy, focusing specifically on the use of short stories to teach the classic works of political philosophy. It is a resource for scholars and teachers of politics, philosophy, and literature.
Publisher: Lexington Books
ISBN: 1498573665
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 296
Book Description
This book examines the intersection of fictional narratives and political philosophy, focusing specifically on the use of short stories to teach the classic works of political philosophy. It is a resource for scholars and teachers of politics, philosophy, and literature.
American Political Thought
Author: Alan Pendleton Grimes
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780030075452
Category : Political science
Languages : en
Pages : 556
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780030075452
Category : Political science
Languages : en
Pages : 556
Book Description
Citizenship and Civic Leadership in America
Author: Carol McNamara
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN: 1666900680
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 327
Book Description
This collection of essays discusses the concepts of citizenship and civic leadership in light of contemporary challenges to American democracy. The authors invite further reflection on the features of citizenship and civic leadership under the American Constitution, and offer various suggestions about how to revitalize citizenship and civic leaders
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN: 1666900680
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 327
Book Description
This collection of essays discusses the concepts of citizenship and civic leadership in light of contemporary challenges to American democracy. The authors invite further reflection on the features of citizenship and civic leadership under the American Constitution, and offer various suggestions about how to revitalize citizenship and civic leaders
The Cambridge Companion to the Twentieth-Century American Novel and Politics
Author: Bryan Santin
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1316516482
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 397
Book Description
This volume analyzes how political movements, ideas, and events shaped the American novel.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1316516482
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 397
Book Description
This volume analyzes how political movements, ideas, and events shaped the American novel.
The Politics of Twin Peaks
Author: Amanda DiPaolo
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN: 1498578381
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 212
Book Description
The strange and wonderful place of Twin Peaks captivated audiences for more than two decades before its long-awaited return to television in 2017. In this edited collection, the authors approach Twin Peaks from a variety of perspectives with the concept of the political at its center.
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN: 1498578381
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 212
Book Description
The strange and wonderful place of Twin Peaks captivated audiences for more than two decades before its long-awaited return to television in 2017. In this edited collection, the authors approach Twin Peaks from a variety of perspectives with the concept of the political at its center.
Baudelaire Contra Benjamin
Author: Beibei Guan
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN: 1498595081
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 234
Book Description
This book offers the first sustained argument against the philosophy of Walter Benjamin and his readings of Charles Baudelaire. Drawing upon the existential insights of Baudelaire it is also a critique of politicized aesthetics, and cultural Marxism, of which Benjamin is a pioneering and emblematic figure.
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN: 1498595081
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 234
Book Description
This book offers the first sustained argument against the philosophy of Walter Benjamin and his readings of Charles Baudelaire. Drawing upon the existential insights of Baudelaire it is also a critique of politicized aesthetics, and cultural Marxism, of which Benjamin is a pioneering and emblematic figure.
Flattering the Demos
Author: Marlene K. Sokolon
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN: 1498578411
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 182
Book Description
To understand the movements of democratic society one must appreciate fictional narratives and not depend on rationalistic argumentation and scientific analyses. This volume examines the lessons and effects of storytelling in democratic culture and political life, as it articulates our aspirations, communicates our fears, and criticizes our reality.
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN: 1498578411
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 182
Book Description
To understand the movements of democratic society one must appreciate fictional narratives and not depend on rationalistic argumentation and scientific analyses. This volume examines the lessons and effects of storytelling in democratic culture and political life, as it articulates our aspirations, communicates our fears, and criticizes our reality.
American Political Thought
Author: Whittington
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 9780190095536
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 9780190095536
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
Wonder and Cruelty
Author: Steven Johnston
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN: 1498583636
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 124
Book Description
This book looks at why Frank Capra’s It’s a Wonderful Life is either the most inspirational or the cruelest film American cinema has ever produced. It depicts, perhaps unwittingly, an ontological war in which two well-matched adversaries fight a series of pitched battles that neither side can win without producing tragic remainders.
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN: 1498583636
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 124
Book Description
This book looks at why Frank Capra’s It’s a Wonderful Life is either the most inspirational or the cruelest film American cinema has ever produced. It depicts, perhaps unwittingly, an ontological war in which two well-matched adversaries fight a series of pitched battles that neither side can win without producing tragic remainders.