03576nam a22005295i 4500 978-3-031-65719-1 DE-He213 20251030113056.0 cr nn 008mamaa 240920s2024 sz | s |||| 0|eng d 9783031657191 978-3-031-65719-1 10.1007/978-3-031-65719-1 doi B65 HPS bicssc PHI019000 bisacsh QDTS thema Dobski, Bernard J. author. aut http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut 84723 Mark Twain’s Joan of Arc [electronic resource] : Political Wisdom, Divine Justice, and the Origins of Modernity / by Bernard J. Dobski. 1st ed. 2024. Cham : Springer Nature Switzerland : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2024. XIX, 324 p. 1 illus. online resource. text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier text file PDF rda Recovering Political Philosophy, 2524-7174 Chapter One: Introduction -- Part One -- Chapter Two: The Puzzles of Mark Twain’s Joan of Arc -- Chapter Three: Twain’s Interest in Religion & the Divine Right of Kings -- Chapter Four: From the Question of Divine Right to the Character of Sieur Louis de Conte -- Part Two -- Chapter Five: Joan’s Noble Political Career -- Chapter Six: The Maiden Head of Modernity: Joan’s Revolutionary Project -- Chapter Seven: The Human Roots of Religious Belief -- Part Three -- Chapter Eight: Speech in Personal Recollections: History, Tragedy, and Comedy -- Chapter Nine: Judging Joan -- Chapter Ten: The Queering of Joan’s Being -- Chapter Eleven: Conclusion. This book is about the political wisdom embodied in Personal Recollections of Joan of Arc by Mark Twain, the self-declared best book by arguably America’s greatest author. More precisely, this study illuminates Twain’s political wisdom by examining his approach to the theological-political problem; it takes up Twain’s handling of the question of whether a providential deity intervenes in human affairs so as to effectuate divine justice on earth and it does this through a commentary on his last complete novel. Through this investigation, Twain prompts his audience to explore the natural, conventional, or divine basis for justice in political life. Such a study is critical for understanding Twain’s corpus, concerned as it is with the tension between material determinism and moral agency. Dobski argues that Twain’s last novel prepares his readers to adopt a “new” understanding of man and his relationship to God, his country, and his fellow man. Political science Philosophy. 57588 Political science. 58714 Political Philosophy. 66964 Political Theory. 70609 Political Science. 58714 SpringerLink (Online service) Springer Nature eBook Printed edition: 9783031657184 Printed edition: 9783031657207 Printed edition: 9783031657214 Recovering Political Philosophy, 2524-7174 84724 https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-65719-1 ZDB-2-REP ZDB-2-SXPR 63571 63571