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Political Fictions
Patrick Boucheron
其他書名
From the Middle Ages to the "Post-Truth" Present
出版
Other Press, LLC
, 2025-06-03
主題
History / Essays
History / Europe / Medieval
Political Science / Essays
ISBN
1635423767
9781635423761
URL
http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=cP0eEQAAQBAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api
註釋
An acclaimed historian illuminates today's political situation by examining the relationship between governing and storytelling, from the Middle Ages to the “post-truth” present, in these engaging essays.
In the wake of Donald Trump’s election, renowned medievalist Patrick Boucheron delivered a powerful, probing series of lectures on “political fictions” in the context of rising authoritarianism and populism. Adapted here for the first time in English, they offer key insights into how we arrived at our current global moment and what history can teach us about moving forward.
Long before Trump parlayed his reality TV character into a presidential victory with the MAGA movement, aspiring rulers have used the art of storytelling and the power of fable to control others. Discussing seminal works from Machiavelli’s
The Prince
and Hobbes’s
Leviathan
to Orwell’s
1984
and the writings of Nazi jurist Carl Schmitt, Boucheron explores the profound interconnectedness of political theory and fiction, and the tension between politics and the political.