A Tale of Two Republics: Plato, Palpatine, and Politics Aristotle's Politics and the Virtues of Springfield: Community, Education, and Friendship in The Simpsons "Keep Your Friends Close But Your Enemies Closer": Machiavelli and Michael Corleone Social
Joseph J. Foy, associate campus dean and associate
professor of political science at the University of
Wisconsin—Waukesha, USA, is the editor of Homer Simpson Goes to
Washington: American Politics through Popular Culture and coeditor
of Homer Simpson Marches on Washington: Dissent through American
Popular Culture.
Timothy M. Dale, assistant professor of political
science at the University of Wisconsin--La Crosse, USA, is coeditor
of Homer Simpson Marches on Washington: Dissent through American
Popular Culture.
""Foy and Dale have done it again, this time with political theory!
Political theory is one of the most difficult subjects that
political science undergraduates encounter and Homer Simpson
Ponders Politics opens up an avenue for students to engage many of
the broad theories through some of the cultural artifacts with
which they are most familiar: popular culture. These important
theories bubble up through all areas of popular culture from
Machiavelli and The Godfather to Plato and Star Wars -- there is
much to learn from this compendium. This is a useful book for
students of political theory of any age or training and for those
who are intrigued by the many political concepts popular culture
teaches us." --Lilly J. Goren, coeditor of Women and the White
House: Gender, Popular Culture, and Presidential Politics" --
""Since ancient times myths and stories have been used to convey
our deepest thoughts about how to live together in community. With
this book we now have a fun and engaging way to learn and think
about political theory through the myths and stories of our time,
popular culture."-- William Irwin, author of Black Sabbath and
Philosophy: Mastering Reality" --
""Today, film, fiction, and television reflect our notions of civic
virtue, morality, and the human condition -- or at least help us to
struggle with understanding and defining these. The ubiquitous
nature of popular culture means that it will have an effect upon
us, whether one likes that or not. The authors argue that, given
this fact, even those who doubt the 'seriousness' of popular
culture would do well to pay attention to it." -- Margaret
Ferguson, Assistant Vice President for Statewide Academic Relations
at Indiana University" --
"Most essays in this collection employ their "philosophical guides"
in ways that can...disabuse undergraduates of the notion that
political theory can better address the sterile and obsolete
concerns of forgotten eras than fundamental questions about
contemporary political life." -- Choice
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