Why Moralize upon It? by Brian Danoff
Danoff argues that novels and films with an ambiguous, nuanced, and tragic outlook help teach citizen-readers how to think through the moral complexities of political issues on which they must render judgment. He claims that some of the most profound American thinking about the nature of democratic leadership has come through works of fiction.-
Defenses Against the Dark Arts
- Shakespeare and Politics in Film Adaptations
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Philosophical Perspective on Cinema
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Flannery OConnor and the Perils of Governing by Tenderness
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From Ideology to Nostalgia
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Dark Places
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Between Science and Society
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Baudelaire Contra Benjamin
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Politics, Literature, and Film in Conversation
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Filming the First
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Film and Faith
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The Architecture of Survival
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Age of Anxiety
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American Epic
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The Final Frontier
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Promoting Postcolonial Australia
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Lincoln's Shakespearean Education
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The Politics of Violence Against Women in Climate Fiction
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Popular Culture and the Political Values of Neoliberalism
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The Unknown Satanic Verses Controversy on Race and Religion
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The American Road Trip and American Political Thought
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Popular Culture and Foreign Policy
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The United States Constitution in Film
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Human Nature and Politics in Utopian and Anti-Utopian Fiction
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Rabelais's Contempt for Fortune
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Updike and Politics
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Liberty, Individuality, and Democracy in Jorge Luis Borges
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The Coen Brothers and the Comedy of Democracy
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Nikolai Chernyshevskii and Ayn Rand
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Philip Roth and the American Liberal Tradition
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AIDS-Trauma and Politics
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Wicked Leadership in Film
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Aldous Huxley
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A Prophet of Modern Delusions
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Shakespeare between Machiavelli and Hobbes
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The Limits of Politics
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Walker Percy and the Politics of the Wayfarer
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Mad Men
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Milton's Socratic Rationalism
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Beyond Free Speech and Propaganda
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Out of a Gray Fog
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Game of Thrones and the Theories of International Relations
“Brian Danoff reveals the unparalleled capacity of the novel and film to illuminate the complexity of political life and to foster the moral reflection necessary for democracyIn doing so, Danoff demonstrates that Herman Melville, Ralph Ellison, and Robert Penn Warren are indeed some of America's greatest statesmen.” -- Natalie Fuehrer Taylor, Skidmore College
“Danoff incisively reveals and explores the crucial significance of reading great American literature, and watching great American films, to the success of our unique experiment in self-government. This impressive achievement could not have come at a better time for an American political culture that is in desperate need of resuscitation." -- S. Adam Seagrave, Arizona State University
[R]eading Danoff’s Why Moralize Upon It?, with its excellent analysis of some important books, movies, and lives, may well help concerned citizens find reason to see a world that is too often represented as hopelessly divided and polarized, as being rather different, possibly even more welcoming. * VoegelinView *
[I]n this volume Brian Danoff takes what is familiar to many students of American politics and complicates it, both with new interpretations and new objects of study, infusing welcome energy into the study of American political fiction…. Why Moralize upon It? is, like the novels and movies it celebrates, an exemplar of democratic education. * The Review of Politics *
“Danoff incisively reveals and explores the crucial significance of reading great American literature, and watching great American films, to the success of our unique experiment in self-government. This impressive achievement could not have come at a better time for an American political culture that is in desperate need of resuscitation." -- S. Adam Seagrave, Arizona State University
[R]eading Danoff’s Why Moralize Upon It?, with its excellent analysis of some important books, movies, and lives, may well help concerned citizens find reason to see a world that is too often represented as hopelessly divided and polarized, as being rather different, possibly even more welcoming. * VoegelinView *
[I]n this volume Brian Danoff takes what is familiar to many students of American politics and complicates it, both with new interpretations and new objects of study, infusing welcome energy into the study of American political fiction…. Why Moralize upon It? is, like the novels and movies it celebrates, an exemplar of democratic education. * The Review of Politics *
Brian Danoff is associate professor of political science at Miami University
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| ISBN 13 | 9781498573627 |
| ISBN 10 | 1498573622 |
| Title | Why Moralize upon It? |
| Author | Brian Danoff |
| Series | Politics Literature And Film Ser |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing Plc |
| Year published | 2020-07-22 |
| Number of pages | 142 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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