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Moral imagination essays / David Bromwich.

By: Publication details: Princeton : Princeton University Press, 2014.Description: xxiv, 350 pages ; 23 cmISBN:
  • 9780691173160
Other title:
  • Jacket title: Moral imagination : essays
Uniform titles:
  • Essays. Selections
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 813/.54 23
LOC classification:
  • PS3552.R637 A6 2014
  • PN75.B69 A5 2014
Contents:
Moral imagination -- A dissent on cultural identity -- The meaning of patriotism in 1789 -- Lincoln and Whitman as representative Americans -- Lincoln's constitutional necessity -- Shakespeare, Lincoln, and ambition -- The American psychosis -- How publicity makes people real -- The self-deceptions of empire -- What is the West? -- Holy terror and civilized terror -- Comments on perpetual war -- Cheney's law -- Euphemism and violence -- William Safire: wars made out of words -- What 9/11 makes us forget -- The Snowden case.

Includes index.

Moral imagination -- A dissent on cultural identity -- The meaning of patriotism in 1789 -- Lincoln and Whitman as representative Americans -- Lincoln's constitutional necessity -- Shakespeare, Lincoln, and ambition -- The American psychosis -- How publicity makes people real -- The self-deceptions of empire -- What is the West? -- Holy terror and civilized terror -- Comments on perpetual war -- Cheney's law -- Euphemism and violence -- William Safire: wars made out of words -- What 9/11 makes us forget -- The Snowden case.

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