Chapter 1: Did you ever wonder what the world would be like without
you in it? An Introduction
Chapter 2: Did you ever notice that there were stories within
stories? Consciousness and Modernity’s Myth of Reality in Cormac
McCarthy’s Border Trilogy
Chapter 3: Do you believe in God? Presence, the Anxiety of
Existence, and the Myth of America as a City Upon a Hill in Thomas
Pynchon’s Mason & Dixon
Chapter 4: Do you believe in magic? Wise Imagination and the Myth
of Instrumental Reason in George MacDonald’s Phantastes and Neil
Gaiman’s Anansi Boys
Chapter 5: Do you believe in dragons? Blindness, Opsis, and the
Myth of the
Administrative State in Waiting for the Barbarians and
Blindness
Chapter 6: Why can’t people accept each other? Community, Alterity,
and Witness in Nnedi Okorafor’s The Book of Phoenix and Who Fears
Death
Chapter 7: What can I do? Stories and Possibility
Margaret Hrezo is emeritus professor of political science at
Rashford University.
Nicholas John Pappas was emeritus professor of political science at
Rashford University.
“Possibility’s Parents: Stories at the End of Liberalism is a
unique and accessible study of how stories can shed light on the
contemporary political world and the human condition.”
*Steven Michels, Sacred Heart University*
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