Moral Imagination : essays / David Bromwich.

Moral Imagination : essays / David Bromwich.

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Spanning many historical and literary contexts, Moral Imagination brings together a dozen recent essays by one of America's premier cultural critics. David Bromwich explores the importance of imagination and sympathy to suggest how these faculties may illuminate the motives of human action and...

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Online Access:Electronic book from JSTOR
Main Author: Bromwich, David, 1951-
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published:Princeton : Princeton University Press, 2014.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Political ethics.
Political science > Philosophy.
Criticism.
Essays.
Table of Contents:
  • Cover
  • Title
  • Copyright
  • Dedication
  • CONTENTS
  • Preface
  • ONE
  • 1 Moral Imagination
  • 2 A Dissent on Cultural Identity
  • 3 The Meaning of Patriotism in 1789
  • TWO
  • 4 Lincoln and Whitman as Representative Americans
  • 5 Lincoln's Constitutional Necessity
  • 6 Shakespeare, Lincoln, and Ambition
  • THREE
  • 7 The American Psychosis
  • 8 How Publicity Makes People Real
  • 9 The Self-Deceptionsof Empire
  • FOUR
  • 10 What Is the West?
  • 11 Holy Terror and Civilized Terror
  • 12 Comments on Perpetual War
  • Cheney's Law
  • Euphemism and Violence
  • William Safire: Wars Made out of Words
  • What 9/11 Makes Us Forget
  • The Snowden Case
  • Index.

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