
Power and Imagination
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- Cover
- Contents
- Foreword (Robert Ginsberg)
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- 1. Niccolò Machiavelli: A Demonized Humanistor a Monster of Modern Politics?
- What Do We Learn about Politics from Literature?
- Who Demonized Machiavelli? And Why?
- Stendhal and the Footprints of Machiavelli's Thought
- Will Bravery, Glory, and Honor Be Reborn? The Anatomy of Immorality and Corruption
- 2. Giambattista Vico: Power and Imagination in the Dispute between Ancients and Moderns
- The Late Discovery of a Genius: Giambattista Vico as a Hero of the Nineteenth Century
- Mapping Vico's Thought: Trinitarian Theories of History
- Religion and the Emergence of Modern Society
- How to Make Philology into Philosophy? Vico's Epistemological Challenge
- The Early Voice of Modern Historicism: Three Kinds of Human Nature
- The Struggle over Antiquity: Ancients vs. Moderns
- The Descartes of the Humanities?
- 3. Cervantes vs. Shakespeare: The Sociogenesis of Love and Friendship in Don Quixote and Romeo and Juliet
- A Transitional Era Person
- The Genealogy of Romeo and Juliet
- The Sociogenesis of Modern Sentiment
- Hatred as Depersonalization: A Name in the Place of a Face
- Ambivalence and the Interchangeability of Love and Hatred
- Love and Friendship in Romeo and Juliet and Don Quixote
- Postscript
- 4. Behind Utopias: Where Shall the Conservative Imagination Be Found?
- Prophets of the Past
- Harmonies and Dissonances
- Conservatism and Humanism
- Conservatism and the Moral Imagination
- Utopia and the Conservative Critique of Modernity
- Two Forms of Conservative Sensitivity
- Dystopia and the Conservative Imagination
- 5. Behind Dystopias: Where Shall the Liberal Imagination Be Found?
- The Coming of the Machine: Zamyatin, Huxley, and Orwell
- Love as a Threat to the New World Order
- Rex Warner
- George Orwell
- Czeslaw Milosz
- Milan Kundera
- Works Cited
- Index
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