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Allegories of America : Narratives, Metaphysics, Politics / Frederick M. Dolan.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Dolan, Frederick Michael, author.
- en Book Program, National Endowment for the Humanities Op, Author.
- Series:
- Contestations Series
- Contestations
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Allegory.
- Fiction--Political aspects--United States.
- Fiction.
- Political culture--United States.
- Political culture.
- Political science--United States--History.
- Political science.
- Politics and literature--United States.
- Politics and literature.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Cornell University Press 2018
- Ithaca, NY : Cornell University Press, [2018]
- Language Note:
- In English.
- Biography/History:
- Frederick M. Dolan is Assistant Professor of Rhetoric at the University of California at Berkeley, where he teaches modern political theory.
- Summary:
- Allegories of America offers a bold idea of what, in terms of political theory, it means to be American. Beginning with the question What do we want from a theory of politics? Dolan explores the metaphysics of American-ness and stops along the way to reflect on John Winthrop, the Constitution, 1950s behavioralist social science, James Merrill, and William Burroughs.
- Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction: Allegories of America
- 1. The Fiction of America
- 2. America's Critique of Reason
- 3. Cold War Metaphysics
- 4. Fiction and the Dilemma of Postmodern Politics
- 5. Practicing Political Theory Otherwise
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
- Notes:
- This eBook is made available Open Access under a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 license: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0 https://www.degruyter.com/dg/page/open-access-policy
- Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 15. Jun 2019)
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 9781501727801
- 150172780X
- 9781501726231
- 1501726234
- OCLC:
- 1028954951
- Access Restriction:
- Open access Unrestricted online access
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