Hollywood Westerns and American Myth: The Importance of Howard Hawks and John Ford for Political Philosophy: Castle Lecture Series
Autor Robert B. Pippinen Limba Engleză Paperback – 31 ian 2012
Robert Pippin treats these films as sophisticated mythic accounts of a key moment in American history: its “second founding,” or the western expansion. His central question concerns how these films explore classical problems in political psychology, especially how the virtues of a commercial republic gained some hold on individuals at a time when the heroic and martial virtues were so important. Westerns, Pippin shows, raise central questions about the difference between private violence and revenge and the state’s claim to a legitimate monopoly on violence, and they show how these claims come to be experienced and accepted or rejected.
Pippin’s account of the best Hollywood Westerns brings this genre into the center of the tradition of political thought, and his readings raise questions about political psychology and the political passions that have been neglected in contemporary political thought in favor of a limited concern with the question of legitimacy.
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9780300172065
ISBN-10: 0300172060
Pagini: 208
Ilustrații: 52 b-w + 14 color illus.
Dimensiuni: 140 x 210 x 13 mm
Greutate: 0.25 kg
Editura: Yale University Press
Colecția Yale University Press
Seria Castle Lecture Series
ISBN-10: 0300172060
Pagini: 208
Ilustrații: 52 b-w + 14 color illus.
Dimensiuni: 140 x 210 x 13 mm
Greutate: 0.25 kg
Editura: Yale University Press
Colecția Yale University Press
Seria Castle Lecture Series
Recenzii
"A trenchant and illuminating study of three great Westerns and a convincing case for their importance both to political psychology and to our own self-understanding as American citizens."—C. D. C. Reeve, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
"Robert Pippin's study of three great Westerns is a fine meditation on the place of heroism in democracy and the ambiguous relationship between legend and history in the making of heroes. It can stand with the best recent books on the Western as a genre, but it is driven by a thought all its own: the difficulty of the search for order, and the elusive 'possibility of an American politics.'"—David Bromwich, Yale University
“Pippin's marvelous book is a more than worthy successor to the classic essays on the Western by André Bazin and Robert Warshow. This volume is remarkable for its clarity and depth of argument.”—George Wilson, University of Southern California
Notă biografică
Robert B. Pippin is the Evelyn Stefansson Nef Distinguished Service Professor in the John U. Nef Committee on Social Thought, the Department of Philosophy, and the College at the University of Chicago.