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The Artistic Foundations of Nations and Citizens

This book examines politics through the lens of art and literature. Through discussion on great works of visual art, literature, and cultural representations of political thought in the medieval, early modern, and American eras, it explores the relevance of the nation-state to human freedom and flourishing, as well as the concept of citizenship and statesmanship that it implies, in contrast to that of the global community. The essays in this volume focus on shifting notions of various core political concepts like citizenship, republicanism, and nationalism from antiquity to the present-day to provide a systematic understanding of their evolving histories through Western Art and literature. It highlights works such as the Bayeux Tapestry, Shakespeares Henry V, Henry VI, and A Midsummer Nights Dream, Twains Joan of Arc and Hermanns Nichts als Gespenster, among several other canonical works of political interest. Further, it questions if we should now look beyond the nation-state to some form of trans-national, global community to pursue the human freedom desired by progressives, or look at smaller forms of community resembling the polis to pursue the friendship and nobility valued by the ancients.

The volume will be invaluable to students and teachers of political science, especially political theory and philosophy, visual arts, and world literature.

Ann Ward is Professor of Political Science at Baylor University, USA. Her research interests are ancient political philosophy, especially Herodotus, Plato and Aristotle, and nineteenth-century political thought. Wards most recent book is The Socratic Individual: Philosophy, Faith and Freedom in a Democratic Age (2020). She is also the author of Contemplating Friendship in Aristotles Ethics (2016), and Herodotus and the Philosophy of Empire (2008). She has edited Classical Rationalism and the Politics of Europe (2017), Socrates and Dionysus: Philosophy and Art in Dialogue (2013), Matter and Form: From Natural Science to Political Philosophy (2009), and Socrates: Reason or Unreason as the Foundation of European Identity (2007). She has co-edited with Lee Ward Natural Right and Political Philosophy: Essays in Honor of Catherine Zuckert and Michael Zuckert (2013), and The Ashgate Research Companion to Federalism (2009). She has published widely in scholarly journals, including POLIS: The Journal for Ancient Greek Political Thought, Perspectives on Political Science, European Journal of Political Theory, and The European Legacy: Toward New Paradigms.

The Artistic Foundations of Nations and Citizens

Art, Literature, and the Political Community

Edited by Ann Ward

First published 2022

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ISBN: 978-0-367-64048-4 (hbk)

ISBN: 978-0-367-70305-9 (pbk)

ISBN: 978-1-003-14559-2 (ebk)

DOI: 10.4324/9781003145592

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For my mother Patricia Allen, and for my father, Mark Allen, in loving memory

• 1.1 Detail of the Bayeux Tapestry eleventh century
• 1.2 Detail of the Bayeux Tapestry eleventh century
• 1.3 Detail of the Bayeux Tapestry eleventh century
• 2.1 Allegory of Good Government by Ambrogio Lorenzetti
• 2.2 Figure of Common Good (Ben Comune)detail from Allegory of Good Government by Ambrogio Lorenzetti
• 2.3 Virtues floating over the figure of Common Good: figures of Faith, Charity, and Hopedetail from Allegory of Good Government by Ambrogio Lorenzetti
• 2.4 Effects of good government on the panorama of citt by Ambrogio Lorenzetti
• 2.5 Effects of good government on the panorama of contado by Ambrogio Lorenzetti
• 2.6 Figure of Tyrannydetail from Allegory of Bad Government by Ambrogio Lorenzetti
• 2.7 Figure of Justicedetail from Allegory of Good Government by Ambrogio Lorenzetti
• 2.8 Figure of Peacedetail from Allegory of Good Government by Ambrogio Lorenzetti
• 3.1 The Snow Storm: Hannibal and his Army Crossing the Alps by J. M. W. Turner
• 3.2 Dido Building Carthage/The Rise of the Carthaginian Empire by J. M. W. Turner
• 3.3 The Decline of the Carthaginian Empire by J. M. W. Turner
• 3.4 War: The Exile and The Rock Limpet by J. M. W. Turner
• 3.5 Rain, Steam, and Speed: The Great Western Railway by J. M. W. Turner

Patrick N. Cain is Associate Professor of Political Science at Lakehead University, where he teaches Political Philosophy, Politics and Literature, and Constitutional Law. He has served as Chair of the Department since 2015. His research includes essays on the political thought of Homer, Aristotle, St. Thomas Aquinas, and Benedict XVI. He is also co-editor of a volume of essays entitled Democracy and the History of Political Thought.

Catherine Craig is a doctoral candidate in Political Science at Baylor University. Her research interests include classical political philosophy, specifically Platos dialogues; the history of political thought; and the relationship between philosophy, art, and politics. She is the coauthor of Wits Justice in Aristotles Nichomachean Ethics with Sara MacDonald (Political Science Reviewer, 2020).

Bernard J. Dobski is an Associate Professor of Political Science at Assumption College in Worcester, MA, where he teaches courses in political philosophy, international relations, and American foreign policy. He is the co-editor of two volumes of essays on Shakespeares political wisdom (Souls with Longing and Shakespeare and the Body Politic) and has published articles, book chapters, reviews essays, and reviews on Mark Twain, Thucydides, Xenophon, Shakespeare, and American foreign policy in Journal of American Political Thought, Review of Politics, Interpretation, Philosophy & Literature, POLIS

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