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Allegories of America : Narratives, Metaphysics, Politics / Frederick M. Dolan.

By: Material type: TextTextLanguage: English Series: ContestationsPublisher: Ithaca, NY : Cornell University Press, [2018]Copyright date: ©1995Description: 1 online resourceContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781501726231
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 320.973
LOC classification:
  • E169.1 .D653 1994eb
Online resources:
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
Title is part of eBook package: COR eBook Package ArchiveSummary: 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.
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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

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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.

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