"Inspired and in honor of the work of noted political theorist Mary P. Nichols, the essays in this volume explore political ideas and implications in a range of works of philosophy, literature, and film from classical antiquity to the present day, creating an interdisciplinary conversation across genres"--.

• Cover
• Half Title
• Series Page
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Contents
• Acknowledgments
• Introduction
  • The Scholarly Achievement of Mary P. Nichols
  • Plan for the Volume
  • Notes
• Part I: Conversations about Love and Friendship
• Chapter 1: The Good, Truth, and Friendship in Aristotle’s Nicomachean Ethics
  • The Good of Another
  • Honor, Virtue, and the Good
  • Friendship and the Good
  • Truth and Virtue
  • Friendship, Knowledge, and the Social Virtues
  • Conclusion
  • Notes
• Chapter 2: Friendship and the Solitude of Greatness: The Case of Charles de Gaulle
  • The Man of Character
    • Aloofness and the Melancholy of Superior Men
  • A Family Man
  • A Paucity of Friendships
  • Malraux, the “Inspired Friend”
  • Adenauer and de Gaulle: A Great Political Friendship
  • Conclusion
  • Notes
• Chapter 3: Love and Friendship in Henry James’s The Bostonians
  • Beyond Utility or Pleasure: Complicated Characters with Complex Motivations in The Bostonians
    • Verena Tarrant
    • Olive Chancellor
    • Basil Ransom
  • Two Aristotelian Friendships: A Study in Contrasts
    • Olive and Verena’s Friendship
    • Basil and Verena’s “Friendship”
  • On Paths Not Taken: Friendships as Possibilities
  • Notes
• Chapter 4: Whit Woody Barcelona: Love and Friendship in Whit Stillman’s Barcelona and Woody Allen’s Vicky, Cristina, Barcelona
  • The Male Drama: Whit Stillman’s Barcelona
  • Challenging Cold War Assumptions
  • The Personal Is Political
  • The Female Drama: Woody Allen’s Vicky Cristina Barcelona
  • Women, Capitalism, and Art
  • The Americans
  • The Catalans
  • Notes
• Part II: Conversations between Politics and Poetry
• Chapter 5: Putting Together Courage and Moderation in Plato and Shakespeare
  • Shakespeare’s Coriolanus: The Problem of Courage
  • Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar: The Problem of Moderation
  • Notes
• Chapter 6: Shakespeare’s Princess: Education for Love and Rule in The Tempest
  • Educating a Prince(ss)
  • A Brave New World
  • Art, Eros, and Play
  • Notes
• Chapter 7: Reading Tolkien through the Lens of Solzhenitsyn’s Analysis of Ideology: On Art, Responsibility, and Progress
  • The Nature of Art
  • Art, Ideology, and the Drama of the Soul
  • The Ideology of Progress
  • Notes
• Chapter 8: Social Dance in the Films of Whit Stillman
  • Stillman’s Oeuvre
  • Dancing’s 60s-thru-70s History, According to the Disco Fans
  • Social Dance in America
  • Metropolitan
  • The Last Days of Disco
  • Damsels in Distress
  • Violet as a Sign of Hope
  • Notes
• Part III: Conversations from Tragedy to Comedy
• Chapter 9: History, Tragedy, and Rebellion in Camus’s Adaptation of Faulkner’s Requiem for a Nun
  • Camus on Tragedy
  • Camus on Rebellion
  • Two Requiems: Camus’s Adaptation of Faulkner
  • Notes
• Chapter 10: A Vindication of Novels: Jane Austen’s Conversation with Mary Wollstonecraft1
  • Notes
• Chapter 11: From Tragedy to Love: Shakespeare’s The Winter’s Tale
  • Tyranny’s Tragedy
  • Sicilian Tragedy
  • The Garden of Bohemia
  • Let Her Name Be Grace
  • Notes
• Chapter 12: The Tragic and the Equitable in Aristotle’s Poetics and Ethics
  • Socratic Political Philosophy and Poetry
  • Poetry and Knowledge
  • The Beginning of Poetry
  • Tragedy and Tragic Error
    • Equity and Justice
  • Equity and Poetic Knowledge
  • Conclusion
  • Notes
• Appendix: Publications by Mary P. Nichols
  • Books
  • Articles and Chapters
• Index
• Contributors