The king and the clown in South Indian myth and poetry by Shulman, David Dean, 1949-

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Pragmatist Politics : Making the Case for Liberal Democracy. by McGowan, John

Table of Contents: “…Liberal Democracy as Secular Comedy; Appendix: Martha Nussbaum's List of "Central Human Functional Capabilities"; Acknowledgments; Notes; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y; Z.…”
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Wittgenstein and political theory : the view from somewhere by Robinson, Christopher C.

Table of Contents: “…Introduction : Wittgenstein and the scene of contemporary political theory -- Theorizing as a lived experience : a Wittgensteinian investigation -- Wittgenstein's philosophy after the disaster -- Wittgenstein and citizenship : reading Socrates in Tehran -- Why Wittgenstein is not conservative : conventions and critique -- Aspect-blindness in religion, philosophy, and law : the force of Wittgensteinian reading -- Seeing as it happens : theorizing politics through the eyes of Wittigenstein -- Bare life : comedy, trust, and language in Wittgenstein -- Bare life : trust, and language in Wittgenstein and Beckett -- Conclusion : the personal is the theoretical.…”
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Wittgenstein and political theory : the view from somewhere by Robinson, Christopher C.

Table of Contents: “…Introduction : Wittgenstein and the scene of contemporary political theory -- Theorizing as a lived experience : a Wittgensteinian investigation -- Wittgenstein's philosophy after the disaster -- Wittgenstein and citizenship : reading Socrates in Tehran -- Why Wittgenstein is not conservative : conventions and critique -- Aspect-blindness in religion, philosophy, and law : the force of Wittgensteinian reading -- Seeing as it happens : theorizing politics through the eyes of Wittigenstein -- Bare life : comedy, trust, and language in Wittgenstein -- Bare life : trust, and language in Wittgenstein and Beckett -- Conclusion : the personal is the theoretical.…”
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Popular tyranny : sovereignty and its discontents in ancient Greece

Table of Contents: “…Raaflaub -- Tragic tyranny / Richard Seaford -- Dēmos tyrannos: wealth, power, and economic patronage / Lisa Kallet -- Demos, demagogue, tyrant in Attic old comedy / Jeffrey Henderson -- The tyranny of audience in Plato and Isocrates / Kathryn A. …”
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Popular tyranny : sovereignty and its discontents in ancient Greece

Table of Contents: “…Raaflaub -- Tragic tyranny / Richard Seaford -- Dēmos tyrannos: wealth, power, and economic patronage / Lisa Kallet -- Demos, demagogue, tyrant in Attic old comedy / Jeffrey Henderson -- The tyranny of audience in Plato and Isocrates / Kathryn A. …”
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Pericles : a Sourcebook and Reader by Tracy, Stephen V.

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Pericles : a Sourcebook and Reader by Tracy, Stephen V.

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Having Your Say : Threats to Free Speech in the 21st Century. by Shackleton, J. R.

Table of Contents: “…-- 6 Having a laugh? Free speech in comedy -- Leo Kearse -- A brief history of censorship in comedy -- Modern censorship -- My own experience -- In defence of censors -- The impact of censorship -- 7 Why free speech in advertising matters -- J.R. …”
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Systems of Life : Biopolitics, Economics, and Literature on the Cusp of Modernity. by Campbell, Timothy C.

Table of Contents: “…The Hero Takes a Fall: Gravity, Comedy, and Darwin's Entangled Bank; Acknowledgments; List of Contributors; Index.…”
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The Greek Polis and the invention of democracy : a politico-cultural transformation and its interpretations

Table of Contents: “…The "Political Sphere," the Risk of Acting, and TragedyOrigin and Political Function of Tragedy; Acting Too Quickly; Ill-advised Action: Creon and Oedipus; The Riddle and the Oracle; Antigone and Orestes: Personal Autonomy, the Climax of Aboulia, and the Recognition of Human Fallibility; No Certainty Anywhere: The Fragility of euboulia; Abbreviation; 4 Democracy and Dissent: the Case of Comedy; Freedom of the Ancients and Freedom of the Moderns; Comedy and the "Company of Athenian Critics" of Democracy; Criticism of Democracy on Stage: from Cratinus to Aristophanes.…”
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Perspectives on English revolutionary republicanism

Table of Contents: “…Davis -- Performing republics: negotiations of political discourse in restoration comedies / Anette Pankratz -- The fatal contagiousness of French republicanism: Edmund Burke and the body politic / Gerold Sedlmayr -- Harrington, petitioning and theáconstruction of public opinion / Edward Vallance -- Republican religion. -- "None can love freedom heartily, but good men": Milton's religious republicanism / Dirk Vanderbeke -- Religion in Harrington's political system: the central concepts and methods of Harrington's religious solutions / Luc Borot -- Mosaica respublica: Harrington, Toland and Moses / Justin Champion.…”
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The Cultures of Italian Migration. by Parati, Graziella

Table of Contents: “…Razzismi/Imbarazzismi: Comedy and Community in the Writings of Kossi Komla-Ebri; Chapter 13. …”
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If mayors ruled the world : dysfunctional nations, rising cities by Barber, Benjamin R., 1939-2017

Table of Contents: “…: Mitigating inequality -- Profile 8 : her honor the mayor, Sheila Dikshit of Delhi -- Smart cities in a virtual world : linking cities with digital technology -- Profile 9 : the peacemakers, Teddy Kollek of Jerusalem and Qadoura Moussa of Jenin -- Cultural cities in a multicultural world : the arts of interdependence -- Profile 10 : civic comedy and the art of citizenship, Antanas Mockus of Bogota -- Citizens without borders : glocal civil society and confederalism -- Profile 11 : the glocal community organizer, Park Won-Soon of Seoul -- A global parliament of mayors : bottom-up democracy and the road to interdependence.…”
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