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245 10 a| Political fictions :b| from the Middle Ages to the "post-truth" present /c| Patrick Boucheron ; translated from the French by Willard Wood.;

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Political fictions : from the Middle Ages to the "post-truth" present / Patrick Boucheron ; translated from the French by Willard Wood.

Author/creator	Boucheron, Patrick author.
Other author	Wood, Willard, translator.
Format	Book
Publication	New York : Other Press, [2025]
Description	xxi, 378 pages : illustrations, frontispiece ; 21 cm
Subjects	Machiavelli, Niccolò, 1469-1527. Principe http://id.loc.gov/resources/hubs/edfdb53a-1842-c77a-20e9-0e7c113decab Hobbes, Thomas, 1588-1679. Leviathan http://id.loc.gov/resources/hubs/e708731e-1277-5161-6902-69cfed0b10c4 Orwell, George, 1903-1950. Nineteen eighty-four. Schmitt, Carl, 1889-1989. Political science--Philosophy. --History. Storytelling--Political aspects. Politics and literature--History.

Physical medium	illustrations.
Contents	Lecture 1. "Each epoch dreams the following one" -- Lecture 2. Truth : before and after -- Lecture 3. An archaeology of collective errors -- Lecture 4. The eucharistic society -- Lecture 5. Cannibalistic power -- Lecture 6. Confronting the Leviathan, I : the visual event -- Lecture 7: Confronting the Leviathan, II : none knows what a body politic may do -- Lecture 8. Confronting the Leviathan, III : morphology and history -- Lecture 9. Fiction's stowaways -- Lecture 10. What Is "prefiguration"? : reverse genealogies -- Lecture 11. Pastiche, postiche, and the power of parody.
Abstract	"A 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 essays. In the wake of Donald Trump's election, medievalist Patrick Boucheron delivered a 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" -- Provided by publisher.
General note	"This text is based on a series of lectures given at the Collège de France between January 10, 2017, and March 21, 2017" -- Title page verso.
Bibliography note	Includes bibliographical references.
Issued in other form	Online version http://id.loc.gov/entities/relationships/onlineversion Boucheron, Patrick Political fictions New York : Other Press, 2025 9781635423761
Genre/form	lectures.
Genre/form	Lectures.
Genre/form	Essays.
Genre/form	Conférences.
LCCN	2025015931
ISBN	9781635423754
ISBN	1635423759
ISBN	ebook

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