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Index
Cover Series Title page Copyright Introduction: Contemplating a House of Cards PART I SOCRATES, PLATO, AND FRANK
1 Of Sheep, Shepherds, and a Wolf in Sheep's Clothing
Justice and Power Underwood's Cynical Use of “His People” It's Good to Be Bad Rings of “Power” and Myths Rings and the “Craft” of Perfect Injustice Tyranny, Philosophy, and the Search for Meaning in a Cynical World Can We Really Get Away with Injustice? Notes
2 Being versus Seeming
“Who the Hell Are You Talking To?” Frank and the Ring of Gyges Frank and the Examined Life Playing the President to Play the President Real Problems Notes
PART II IMAGINING POSSIBILITIES: AMERICAN IDEALS IN HOUSE OF CARDS
3 Frank Underwood Gives the Ideal Society a Reality Check
The Ideals of The West Wing and the Reality of House of Cards Frank Underwood throughout History A New Kind of Ideal Society When John Rawls Embraces Frank Underwood Notes
4 “What Will We Leave Behind?” Claire Underwood's American Dream
“Burning the Barn to Find Our Penny in the Hay”: Adams's American Dream and Ressentiment Claire Underwood: The Resentful Überfrau Notes
PART III CHARACTERIZING FRANK: ÜBERMENSCH OR THE PRINCE
5 Underwood as Übermensch
“Power Is a Lot Like Real Estate, It's All About Location.… The Closer You Are to the Source, the Higher Your Property Value.” “And Others Are There Who Are Like Eight-day Clocks When Wound Up; They Tick, and Want People to Call Ticking—Virtue.” “You Know What I Like About People? They Stack So Well.” “I Will Make That Hypocrisy Hurt.” “He's Got Power. He's Got a Lot to Lose. And Right Now He is Winning.” “When Has Your Help Ever Helped Me?” “The Road to Power is Paved with Hypocrisy and Casualties. Never Regret” “I Will Win and I Will Leave a Legacy.” Notes
6 Why Underwood Is Frankly Not an Overman
Inside the Beltway: Typology, Not Topography Master Frank: Doing What Is Necessary “Why Me?” Peter Russo, Slave Extraordinaire Will the Real Overman Please Stand Up? Don't Übermenschen It The Under/Over on Frank Notes
7 American Machiavelli
“We're in a Very Gray Area. Ethically, Legally. Which I'm Okay With.”—Zoe Barnes “Friends Make the Worst Enemies.”—Frank Underwood “I'm a Good Christian, Remy, Like Your Mother.”—Frank Underwood Majority Whip Jackie Sharp: “Mr. Vice President, What You Are Asking Is Just Shy of Treason.” “Moments Like This Require Someone Who Will Act. To Do the Unpleasant Thing. The Necessary Thing.”—Frank Underwood Notes
8 Machiavelli Would Not Be Impressed
Education Reform at All Costs The Original Machiavelli Failing to Keep Up Appearances The Other FU Was Better Maybe Machiavelli Wasn't Serious Notes
9 Is Frank the Man for the Job? House of Cards and the Problem of Dirty Hands
Avoiding the Problem The Struggle for Power Facing a Catastrophe The Solutions Frank's Dirty Hands: The Wrong Person in the Right Place? Notes
PART IV CLASSICAL LIBERALISM AND DEMOCRACY
10 Frank the Foole, Upon a House of Cards
Frank the Foole Hobbes's Critique of the Foole Is Frank's Behavior Rational? Frank's Objection and the Hobbesian Response Notes
11 Hobbes and Frank on Why Democracy Is Overrated
The Fault in Our Democratic Stars Hungry Like a Wolf Money Changes Everything The Policy of Untruth The Advantage of the Stronger Notes
12 “Democracy Is So Overrated”
The Underwoods Visit the Kallipolis Frank the (Unhappy?) Tyrant From Hobbes to Hegel: Why Monarchs Rule Are the Underwoods Marxist Revolutionaries? Are the Underwoods Unstoppable? Notes
13 “Money Gives Power … Well, a Run for Its Money”
Marx's Method of Historical Analysis A Case Study in Historical Materialism: Frank for VP AmWorks: Is Frank's Goal a Capitalist Goal? Capitalist versus Capitalist: AmWorks and Walmart Worker Victories: Class Warfare and Class Conflict Liberal Democracy Is Overrated Notes
14 Freedom and Democracy in a House of Fear
The “Property Value” of a Surveillance State Prison of Cards “Open” House? Say Nothing Nobody Can Hear You … Except Us Notes
PART V INTRAPERSONAL RELATIONSHIPS, SEXUALITY, AND RACE IN HOUSE OF CARDS
15 Under the Covers with the Underwoods
A Frank Discussion of Adultery A New Type of Marriage Vow Tell Me No Lies Do No Harm God, Punzo, and the Case for Special Sex Rethinking Sex and Commitment The Underwood's Egalitarian Partnership Incidental Objections Notes
16 The Spice of White Life
“I Get to Play the Nigger”: The Narrative of Freddy Hayes The Situation of Black Male Life Racial Capitalism and the Representation of Black Male Life Racial Realism and Harassing White Folks Notes
17 Broken Friendships and the Pathology of Corporate Personhood in House of Cards
“You Ain't Got to Pretend to Be My Friend” States and Corporations: What's the Difference? Tusk and the Punching Bag Walkers If You Can't Beat 'Em, Join 'Em Why Rousseau? Notes
PART VI EXISTENTIAL REALITIES: SELF-LOVE AND FREEDOM
18 Praying to One's Self, for One's Self
Leave the Ideology to the Armchair Generals … Everything Is Permitted Frank's Virtù Assessing Autoeroticism Notes
19 Existential Freedom, Self-Interest, and Frank Underwood's Underhandedness
Self-Interest and Morality Consciousness and Freedom Essences and Freedom Freedom and Responsibility Notes
PART VII LET ME BE FRANK WITH YOU: AGENCY, AESTHETICS, AND INTENTION
20 Rooting for the Villain
Resistance to Frank Is Futile That First Pitch in Greenville The Whale of Imaginative Resistance Notes
21 Frank Underwood's Intentions
“The Nature of Plans Is That They Do Not Remain Immune to Changing Circumstances” “Decisions Made on Emotions Aren't Decisions at All” “Take a Step Back and Look at the Bigger Picture” Notes
22 Francis Underwood's Magical Political Mystery Tour Is Dying to Take You Away; Dying to Take You Away, Take You Today
Useless Things Exhibit A Words Are Actions Full Disclosure Notes
PART VIII VIRTUE AND CHARACTER IN HOUSE OF CARDS
23 Frank Underwood and the Virtue of Friendship
“I Won't Leave One of My Own Bleeding on the Field” “Friends Make the Worst Enemies” “Life Is Sweet When You Spend It with Your Friends” Notes
24 Have You No Decency? Who Is Worse, Claire or Frank?
Character Studies and Studies in Character Richard Plantagenet and Elizabeth Tudor St. Francis and St. Claire The Past, the Present Perfect, and the Future Subjunctive An Indirect Route Learning from Our Betters Democracy behind the Eight Ball We the People A Guess at a Riddle Notes
President Frank Underwood's White House Staff (Contributors) Index EULA
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