Log In
Or create an account ->
Imperial Library
Home
About
News
Upload
Forum
Help
Login/SignUp
Index
Cover Page
Title Page
Copyright Page
Dedication Page
Contents
Foreword
Introduction: Popular Culture as Political Theory: Plato, Aristotle, and Homer
Part 1. Classical Insights and Civic Virtue
1. A Tale of Two Republics: Plato, Palpatine, and Politics
2. Aristotle’s Politics and the Virtues of Springfield: Community, Education, and Friendship in The Simpsons
3. “Keep Your Friends Close but Your Enemies Closer”: Machiavelli and Michael Corleone
Part 2. The State, the Individual, and Political Morality
4. Social Contract: Rebellion and Dissent aboard Serenity
5. Dwight Schrute and Servile Ambition: Tacitus and Rousseau on the Lackey Politics of The Office
6. Who Watches the Watchmen? Kant, Mill, and Political Morality in the Shadow of Manhattan
Part 3. The Limitations and Possibilities of Political Life
7. Avatar, Marx, and the Alienation of Labor
8. Nietzschean Narratives of Hero and Herd in Walt Disney / Pixar’s The Incredibles
9. Muggles, Magic, and Misfits: Michel Foucault at Harry Potter’s Hogwarts
10. Feminism, Sexism, and the Small Screen: Television’s Complicated Relationship with Women
Part 4: The Promises and Problems of Liberal Democracy
11. From John Wayne to John McClane: The Hollywood Action Hero and the Critique of the Liberal State
12. J. R. R. Tolkien’s The Hobbit, or, There and Back Again: Recovering a Platonic-Aristotelian Politics of Friendship in Liberal Democracy
13. “Just Give Them the Internet”: Social Media and the Promise of Liberal Democracy
Acknowledgments
List of Contributors
Index
← Prev
Back
Next →
← Prev
Back
Next →