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Devils and rebels the making of Hawthorne's damned politics / by Reynolds, Larry J. (Larry John), 1942-

Table of Contents: “…Revolution and warfare -- Witchcraft and abolitionism -- Racism, slave narratives, and the body as evidence -- Accord in Concord -- Lies, specters, and the "black man" -- Transformative violence at home and abroad -- The stationary "fall" of a public intellectual.…”
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Thinking in dark times Hannah Arendt on ethics and politics /

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: Thinking in dark times / Roger Berkowitz -- Politics -- Reflections on antisemitism / Christopher Hitchens -- Fiction as poison / George Kateb -- A discriminating politics / Uday Mehta -- Hannah Arendt's political engagements / Seyla Benhabib -- What does it mean to think about politics? / Mark Antaki -- Lying and politics -- A lying world order : political deception and the threat of totalitarianism / Peg Birmingham -- Lying and history / Cathy Caruth -- Citizenship -- The experience of action / Patchen Markell -- Dissent in dark times : Hannah Arendt on civil disobedience and constitutional patriotism / Verity Smith -- Promising and civil disobedience : Arendt's political modernism / J.M. …”
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Plato political philosophy / by Schofield, Malcolm

Table of Contents: “…-- Mill and Jowett on Plato -- Architectonic knowledge -- Philosopher rulers -- Architectonic knowledge revisited -- The limitations of management -- Utopia -- Against utopia -- A question of seriousness -- A future for utopianism -- Plato's utopian realism -- The idea of community -- Epilogue : the question of fantasy -- Money and the soul -- The ethics and politics of money -- The analogy of city and soul -- The psychology of money -- Greed, power and injustice -- Taming the beast within -- Ideology -- Ideology and religion -- The noble lie -- Law and religion.…”
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From Jamestown to Jefferson the evolution of religious freedom in Virginia /

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Rancière's Sentiments / by Panagia, Davide, 1971-

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