1. Introduction: Occasions for Reflection on Political Possibility.- Part I. Relations Between Literary and Political Writing.- 2. J. M. Coetzee’s Fictional Ethics, Christian Howard-Sukhil.- 3. Never Out of Style: On the Critique of Literary Devices in Political Philosophy, Charlie van Veen and Catherine M. Robb.- 4. The Transpolitical Role of Poetry according to Joseph Brodsky and Seamus Heaney, Lewis Fallis.- 5. The Antagonism of Thomas Carlyle’s Romanticism and John Rawls’s Rationalism on Social and Distributive Justice, Brian Wolfel.- II. Political Psychology Depicted.- 6. Boredom as a Propositional Attitude: Reading Alberto Moravia with Hegel, Eliza Starbuck Little.- 7. Beyond Tyranny: Ethical Imagination, Erotic Education, and Justice in Shakespeare’s The Winter’s Tale, Dustin Gish.- 8. Mimetic Rivalry and the Scapegoat Mechanism in Arthur Miller’s The Crucible, Sina Movaghati.-III. Power, Violence, Resistance: Overt and Subtle, Physical and Symbolic.- 9. “Command me, Confessor": Violence, Power, and Ethics within Terry Goodkind's Sword of Truth Series, Benjamin Carpenter.- 10. Leontius in Vietnam: The Aesthetics of Violence in Michael Herr’s Dispatches, Luke Sayers.- 11. African Scarification and Slavery: from Anthropology to Allegory, Michael Janis.- 12.Flaubert and Marx on 1848, Divya Menon.- IV. Outward Corruption, Inner Corrosion, Aesthetic Redemption.- 13. Platonic Corruption in The Handmaid’s Tale, Andy Lamey.- 14. Michael Corleone, Truly Unregulated Capitalist: The Godfather II as Political Allegory and Ethical Catastrophe, Garry L. Hagberg.- 15. Retheorizing the Aristotelians’ Catharsis: The Role of Memories in Narrating and Purging Emotions, Shilpi Saxena and Diksha Sharma.- 16. The Philosopher at the Gate of the Word: A Study of Simone Weil’s Transformative Literature, Caprioglio Panizza and Philip Wilson.
