Literature and the Political Imagination

Book Cover......Page 1
Title......Page 4
Contents......Page 5
List of contributors......Page 8
Preface......Page 10
Literature, philosophy and political theory......Page 12
Taking the narrative turn: what the novel has to offer political theory......Page 43
\'What of soul was left, I wonder?\' The narrative self in political philosophy......Page 64
Life, literature and ethical theory: Martha Nussbaum on the role of the literary imagination in ethical thought......Page 81
Modes of political imagining......Page 109
Literature and moral choice......Page 140
The aloofness of liberal politics: can imaginative literature furnish a private space?......Page 156
\'Breathes there the man, with soul so dead\': reflections on patriotic poetry and liberal principles......Page 181
The idea of a national literature......Page 209
The anti-imperialism of George Orwell......Page 229
Contemporary feminist Utopianism: practising Utopia on Utopia......Page 249
Index......Page 267