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Democracy's Literature: Politics and Fiction in America and Political Philosophy Comes to Rick's: Casablanca and American Civic Culture

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  23 August 2006

Henry T. Edmondson
Henry T. Edmondson
Affiliation:
Georgia College
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Democracy's Literature: Politics and Fiction in America. Edited by Patrick J. Deneen and Joseph Romance. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 2005. 248p. $80 cloth, $29.95 paper.

Political Philosophy Comes to Rick's: Casablanca and American Civic Culture. Edited by James F. Pontuso. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2005. 208p. $65.00 cloth, $26.95 paper.

Democracy's Literature is the most recent foray by political philosophers to save literature from itself, or at least to save good books from Departments of English. At the same time, as coeditor Joseph Romance suggests in the conclusion to his own essay, such an undertaking throws a lifeline to narrow-minded political scientists, urging them—if I may paraphrase Flannery O'Connor—to meet political perplexities with an examination of conscience rather than an examination of statistics. And it is this political examination of conscience that literature will often facilitate.

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BOOK REVIEWS: POLITICAL THEORY
Information
Perspectives on Politics , Volume 4 , Issue 3 , September 2006 , pp. 564 - 565
Copyright
© 2006 American Political Science Association

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