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Homer Simpson ponders politics : popular culture as political theory /
It is often said that the poet Homer "educated" ancient Greece. In this book, the authors have assembled a team of notable scholars who argue, quite persuasively, that Homer Simpson and his ilk are educating America and offering insights into the social order and the human condition. Follo...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Lexington :
The University Press of Kentucky,
[2013]
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Introduction : Popular culture as political theory : Plato, Aristotle, and Homer / Joseph J. Foy
- Classical insights and civic virtue. A tale of two republics : Plato, Palpatine, and politics / Dean A. Kowalski ; Aristotle's politics and the virtues of Springfield : community, education, and friendship in The Simpsons / Timothy M. Dale ; Keep your friends close but your enemies closer : Machiavelli and Michael Corleone / Eric T. Kasper
- The state, the individual, and political morality. Social contract : rebellion and dissent aboard Serenity / Susanne E. Foster and James B. South ; Dwight Schrute and servile ambition : Tacitus and Rousseau on the lackey politics of The office / Matthew D. Mendham ; Who watches the Watchmen? Kant, Mill, and political morality in the shadow of Manhattan / S. Evan Krieder
- The limitations and possibilities of political life. Avatar, Marx, and the alienation of labor / Mark C.E. Peterson ; Nietzschean narratives of hero and herd in Walt Disney / Pixar's The Incredibles / C. Heike Schotten ; Muggles, magic and misfits : Michel Foucault at Harry Potter's Hogwarts / Jamie Warner ; Feminism, sexism, and the small screen : television's complicated relationship with women / Denise Du Vernay
- The promises and problems of liberal democracy. From John Wayne to John McClane : the Hollywood action hero and the critique of the liberal state / Carl Bergetz ; J.R.R. Tolkien's The Hobbit, or There and back again : recovering a Platonic-Aristotelian politics of friendship in liberal democracy / Mary M. Keys ; Just give them the Internet : social media and the promise of liberal democracy / Joseph J. Foy.