Liebe, Unschuld und der Staat. Liebe und Politik: Was die politische Theorie vom Kino lernen kann/Love, Innocence and the State. Love and Politics: What Political Theory can learn from the Movies | Zendy

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Liebe, Unschuld und der Staat. Liebe und Politik: Was die politische Theorie vom Kino lernen kann/Love, Innocence and the State. Love and Politics: What Political Theory can learn from the Movies

Author(s) -

Paul W. Kahn

Publication year - 2011

Publication title -

behemoth

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

ISSN - 1866-2447

DOI - 10.1515/behemoth.2011.022

Subject(s) - politics , liberalism , social contract , sacrifice , state (computer science) , individualism , innocence , sociology , humanities , psychoanalysis , philosophy , political science , law , theology , psychology , algorithm , computer science

This article illuminates the puzzling gap between political theory and political imagination. Theory is dominated by liberalism and its insistence on interests, reason, rights, individualism, and the social contract. Movies - and the social imaginations of the political they mirror - turn out to be completely different: Instead of interests, we find love, instead of the contract, we find sacrifice, and instead of the individual, we find the family. Turning to film therefore reveals liberal theory to suffer from a failure of the imagination.

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