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Defenses Against the Dark Arts
The Political Education of Harry Potter and His Friends
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2021
Summary
As the publishing sensation of the last half-century, Harry Potter dominates early education in politics. Children, tweens, teens, and adults love it; and most students come to college knowing at least some of it. This dark fantasy analyzes politics in strikingly practical and institutional ways. Like ancient Sophists, modern Machiavellians, and postmodern Nietzscheans, the Potter books treat politics as dark arts and our defenses against them. The Potter saga overflows with drama, humor, and insight into ours as dark times of terrible troubles. These reach from racism, sexism, and specism to fascism, terrorism, autocracy, and worse. Harry and his friends respond with detailed, entertaining takes on many ideologies, movements, and styles of current politics.Defenses Against the Dark Arts argues that Potter performances of magic show us how and why to leap into political action. This includes the high politics of governments and elections, and especially the everyday politics of families, schools, businesses, media, and popular cultures. It explores Potter versions of idealism, realism, feminism, and environmentalism. It clarifies Potter accounts of bureaucracy, nationalism, and patronage. And it analyzes Potter resistance through existentialism and anarchism. The emphasis is on learning to face and defend against dark arts in dark times.
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Copyright year
2021
ISBN-Print
978-1-4985-9260-4
ISBN-Online
978-1-4985-9261-1
Publisher
Lexington, Lanham
Language
English
Pages
308
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Dedication Page No access
Contents No access
List of Tables No access
Introduction No access Pages 1 - 12
Chapter 1 Political Theories for Dark Times No access
Chapter 2 Dark Arts for Dark Times No access
Chapter 3 Defenses Against Dark Arts No access
Chapter 4 Potter Magic as Perfectionist Politics No access
Chapter 5 Perversions of Perfectionist Politics No access
Chapter 6 Rules and the Philosopher’s Stone No access
Chapter 7 Kinds and the Chamber of Secrets No access
Chapter 8 Friends and the Prisoner of Azkaban No access
Chapter 9 Peoples and the Goblet of Fire No access
Chapter 10Institutions and the Order of the Phoenix No access
Chapter 11 Patrons and the Half-Blood Prince No access
Chapter 12 Fools and the Deathly Hallows No access
