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Myth, Epic, and Apocalypse: When Political Thinkers Put a Good Story to Use
Sat, April 25, 9:50 to 11:20am CDT (9:50 to 11:20am CDT), TBASession Submission Type: Paper Session
Section
Chair
Individual Presentations
9:55am |
Hobbes’ Leviathan in the Genre of Apocalypse: Cosmogony, Eschatology, and Political Order - Mirza Abu Bakr Baig, University of Michigan
10:09am |
Imperial Heroism? Ideology in Vālmīki’s Rāmāyaṇa and the Danger of Political Myth - Stuart Gray, Washington and Lee University
10:23am |
Living as Lotus-Eaters Do: Democracy, Rhetoric, and the Appearance of Virtue in Republic 8 - Theodore Lai Wenming, Georgetown University
Discussants
10:37am |
Simeon Burns, University of Tennessee, Knoxville
10:37am |
David Thomas Suell, Eastern Michigan University
Audience Participation
10:51am |
Audience participation will last for the remainder of the session.
