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Book SynopsisThis volume presents a series of essays in honor of noted scholar of political theory, Mary P. Nichols. The essays reflect Nichols' pathbreaking work in ancient Greek political thought, as well as her influential treatments of works of literature and film in conversation with political theory. Part I: Conversations Concerning Love and Friendship features essays about the philosophical meaning of human connection and affection. Part II: Conversations Between Politics and Poetry looks at the political significance of art, and the ways in which political rule can be understood to be artistic or poetic. Part III: Conversations from Tragedy to Comedy considers whether the human need for community is something to be lamented or celebrated. Broad in scope and interdisciplinary in approach, the essays in this volume address authors such as Plato, Aristotle, Shakespeare, Machiavelli, Mary Wollstonecraft, G.W.F. Hegel, Jane Austen, Henry James, William Faulkner, Albert Camus, J.R.R. Tolkien,
Table of Contents
IntroductionMatthew Dinan and Denise SchaefferPart I – Conversations about Love and Friendship
Chapter 1 The Good, Truth, and Friendship in Aristotle’s Nicomachean Ethics
Stephen Block and Patrick Cain
Chapter2: Friendship and the Solitude of Greatness: The Case of Charles de Gaulle
Daniel Mahoney
Chapter 3: Love and Friendship in Henry James’s The Bostonians
Lisa Pace Vetter
Chapter 4: Whit Woody Barcelona: Love and Friendship in Whit Stillman’s Barcelona and Woody Allen’s Vicky, Cristina, Barcelona
Ann Ward and Lee Ward
Part II – Conversations Between Politics and PoetryChapter 5: Putting Together Courage and Moderation in Plato and Shakespeare
Kenneth DeLuca
Chapter 6: Shakespeare’s Princess: Education for Love and Rule in The Tempest
Paul E. Kirkland
Chapter 7: Reading Tolkien through the Lens of Solzhenitsyn’s Analysis of Ideology:
On Art, Responsibility, and Progress
Germaine Paulo Walsh
Chapter 8: Social Dance in the Films of Whit Stillman
Carl Eric Scott
Part III – Conversations From Tragedy to Comedy
Chapter 9: History, Tragedy and Rebellion in Camus’ Adaptation of Faulkner’s Requiem for a NunDenise Schaeffer
Chapter 10: A Vindication of Novels: Jane Austen’s Conversation with Mary Wollstonecraft
Natalie Fuehrer Taylor
Chapter 11: From Tragedy to Love: Shakespeare’s The Winter’s Tale
Sara MacDonald
Chapter 12: The Tragic and the Equitable in Aristotle’s Poetics and Ethics
Stephen Sims
