House of Cards and Philosophy : Underwood's Republic.
J. Edward. Hackett
Bok Engelsk 2015 · Electronic books.
| Omfang | 1 online resource (242 pages)
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| Utgave | 1st ed.
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| Opplysninger | Intro -- Series -- Title page -- Copyright -- Introduction: Contemplating a House of Cards -- PART I SOCRATES, PLATO, AND FRANK -- 1 Of Sheep, Shepherds, and a Wolf in Sheep's Clothing -- Justice and Power -- Underwood's Cynical Use of "His People" -- It's Good to Be Bad -- Rings of "Power" and Myths -- Rings and the "Craft" of Perfect Injustice -- Tyranny, Philosophy, and the Search for Meaning in a Cynical World -- Can We Really Get Away with Injustice? -- Notes -- 2 Being versus Seeming -- "Who the Hell Are You Talking To?" -- Frank and the Ring of Gyges -- Frank and the Examined Life -- Playing the President to Play the President -- Real Problems -- Notes -- PART II IMAGINING POSSIBILITIES: AMERICAN IDEALS IN HOUSE OF CARDS -- 3 Frank Underwood Gives the Ideal Society a Reality Check -- The Ideals of The West Wing and the Reality of House of Cards -- Frank Underwood throughout History -- A New Kind of Ideal Society -- When John Rawls Embraces Frank Underwood -- Notes -- 4 "What Will We Leave Behind?" Claire Underwood's American Dream -- "Burning the Barn to Find Our Penny in the Hay": Adams's American Dream and Ressentiment -- Claire Underwood: The Resentful Überfrau -- Notes -- PART III CHARACTERIZING FRANK: ÜBERMENSCH OR THE PRINCE -- 5 Underwood as Übermensch -- "Power Is a Lot Like Real Estate, It's All About Location.… The Closer You Are to the Source, the Higher Your Property Value." -- "And Others Are There Who Are Like Eight-day Clocks When Wound Up -- They Tick, and Want People to Call Ticking-Virtue." -- "You Know What I Like About People? They Stack So Well." -- "I Will Make That Hypocrisy Hurt." -- "He's Got Power. He's Got a Lot to Lose. And Right Now He is Winning." -- "When Has Your Help Ever Helped Me?" -- "The Road to Power is Paved with Hypocrisy and Casualties. Never Regret" -- "I Will Win and I Will Leave a Legacy.".. - 13 "Money Gives Power … Well, a Run for Its Money" -- Marx's Method of Historical Analysis -- A Case Study in Historical Materialism: Frank for VP -- AmWorks: Is Frank's Goal a Capitalist Goal? -- Capitalist versus Capitalist: AmWorks and Walmart -- Worker Victories: Class Warfare and Class Conflict -- Liberal Democracy Is Overrated -- Notes -- 14 Freedom and Democracy in a House of Fear -- The "Property Value" of a Surveillance State -- Prison of Cards -- "Open" House? -- Say Nothing -- Nobody Can Hear You … Except Us -- Notes -- PART V INTRAPERSONAL RELATIONSHIPS, SEXUALITY, AND RACE IN HOUSE OF CARDS -- 15 Under the Covers with the Underwoods -- A Frank Discussion of Adultery -- A New Type of Marriage Vow -- Tell Me No Lies -- Do No Harm -- God, Punzo, and the Case for Special Sex -- Rethinking Sex and Commitment -- The Underwood's Egalitarian Partnership -- Incidental Objections -- Notes -- 16 The Spice of White Life -- "I Get to Play the Nigger": The Narrative of Freddy Hayes -- The Situation of Black Male Life -- Racial Capitalism and the Representation of Black Male Life -- Racial Realism and Harassing White Folks -- Notes -- 17 Broken Friendships and the Pathology of Corporate Personhood in House of Cards -- "You Ain't Got to Pretend to Be My Friend" -- States and Corporations: What's the Difference? -- Tusk and the Punching Bag Walkers -- If You Can't Beat 'Em, Join 'Em -- Why Rousseau? -- Notes -- PART VI EXISTENTIAL REALITIES: SELF-LOVE AND FREEDOM -- 18 Praying to One's Self, for One's Self -- Leave the Ideology to the Armchair Generals … -- Everything Is Permitted -- Frank's Virtù -- Assessing Autoeroticism -- Notes -- 19 Existential Freedom, Self-Interest, and Frank Underwood's Underhandedness -- Self-Interest and Morality -- Consciousness and Freedom -- Essences and Freedom -- Freedom and Responsibility -- Notes.. - Notes -- 6 Why Underwood Is Frankly Not an Overman -- Inside the Beltway: Typology, Not Topography -- Master Frank: Doing What Is Necessary -- "Why Me?" Peter Russo, Slave Extraordinaire -- Will the Real Overman Please Stand Up? -- Don't Übermenschen It -- The Under/Over on Frank -- Notes -- 7 American Machiavelli -- "We're in a Very Gray Area. Ethically, Legally. Which I'm Okay With."-Zoe Barnes -- "Friends Make the Worst Enemies."-Frank Underwood -- "I'm a Good Christian, Remy, Like Your Mother."-Frank Underwood -- Majority Whip Jackie Sharp: "Mr. Vice President, What You Are Asking Is Just Shy of Treason." -- "Moments Like This Require Someone Who Will Act. To Do the Unpleasant Thing. The Necessary Thing."-Frank Underwood -- Notes -- 8 Machiavelli Would Not Be Impressed -- Education Reform at All Costs -- The Original Machiavelli -- Failing to Keep Up Appearances -- The Other FU Was Better -- Maybe Machiavelli Wasn't Serious -- Notes -- 9 Is Frank the Man for the Job? House of Cards and the Problem of Dirty Hands -- Avoiding the Problem -- The Struggle for Power -- Facing a Catastrophe -- The Solutions -- Frank's Dirty Hands: The Wrong Person in the Right Place? -- Notes -- PART IV CLASSICAL LIBERALISM AND DEMOCRACY -- 10 Frank the Foole, Upon a House of Cards -- Frank the Foole -- Hobbes's Critique of the Foole -- Is Frank's Behavior Rational? -- Frank's Objection and the Hobbesian Response -- Notes -- 11 Hobbes and Frank on Why Democracy Is Overrated -- The Fault in Our Democratic Stars -- Hungry Like a Wolf -- Money Changes Everything -- The Policy of Untruth -- The Advantage of the Stronger -- Notes -- 12 "Democracy Is So Overrated" -- The Underwoods Visit the Kallipolis -- Frank the (Unhappy?) Tyrant -- From Hobbes to Hegel: Why Monarchs Rule -- Are the Underwoods Marxist Revolutionaries? -- Are the Underwoods Unstoppable? -- Notes.. - PART VII LET ME BE FRANK WITH YOU: AGENCY, AESTHETICS, AND INTENTION -- 20 Rooting for the Villain -- Resistance to Frank Is Futile -- That First Pitch in Greenville -- The Whale of Imaginative Resistance -- Notes -- 21 Frank Underwood's Intentions -- "The Nature of Plans Is That They Do Not Remain Immune to Changing Circumstances" -- "Decisions Made on Emotions Aren't Decisions at All" -- "Take a Step Back and Look at the Bigger Picture" -- Notes -- 22 Francis Underwood's Magical Political Mystery Tour Is Dying to Take You Away -- Dying to Take You Away, Take You Today -- Useless Things -- Exhibit A -- Words Are Actions -- Full Disclosure -- Notes -- PART VIII VIRTUE AND CHARACTER IN HOUSE OF CARDS -- 23 Frank Underwood and the Virtue of Friendship -- "I Won't Leave One of My Own Bleeding on the Field" -- "Friends Make the Worst Enemies" -- "Life Is Sweet When You Spend It with Your Friends" -- Notes -- 24 Have You No Decency? Who Is Worse, Claire or Frank? -- Character Studies and Studies in Character -- Richard Plantagenet and Elizabeth Tudor -- St. Francis and St. Claire -- The Past, the Present Perfect, and the Future Subjunctive -- An Indirect Route -- Learning from Our Betters -- Democracy behind the Eight Ball -- We the People -- A Guess at a Riddle -- Notes -- President Frank Underwood's White House Staff (Contributors) -- Index -- EULA.
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